Ashes By Name Is Man
Pensive impressions of landscape, religion and ancestry give texture to this deeply meditative exploration of a homeland.
20'
Germany
IFFR 2023
With the arrival of an outsider, a peasant woman in rural China begins to sense the repressive, patriarchal bindings of her fate. A fruit tree fights to bloom. The Funeral of Spring is a deeply symbolic, intimate and languidly pastoral exploration of a woman’s sense of self in an environment devoid of female autonomy.
– Fiona Armour
IFFR 2023
- 18'
- Hong Kong
- 2023
- Director
- Gao Zee
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Hong Kong
- Year
- 2023
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 18'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- Chun Zhi Ji
- Language
- Chinese
- Producers
- Mickey Liu, Gao Zee, Sol Ye
- Sales
- CineFun
- Screenplay
- Gao Zee
- Cinematography
- Agnesh Pakozdi
- Editor
- Carlo Francisco Manatad, Gao Zee
- Production Design
- Tian Yunsheng
- Sound Design
- Shen Sum Sum
- Music
- Jean-Christophe Onno
- Cast
- Tian Tian, Cai Shujie, Bailiga Chaganysten, Gao Ping
Also in this combined programme
Flower Rain
A cosmic, textured study of flowers via photochemical reaction.
8'
South Korea
IFFR 2023
Goodbye Words
In the aftermath of death, what becomes of the books we leave behind?
22'
Finland
IFFR 2023
- Director
- Gao Zee
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Hong Kong
- Year
- 2023
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 18'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- Chun Zhi Ji
- Language
- Chinese
- Producers
- Mickey Liu, Gao Zee, Sol Ye
- Sales
- CineFun
- Screenplay
- Gao Zee
- Cinematography
- Agnesh Pakozdi
- Editor
- Carlo Francisco Manatad, Gao Zee
- Production Design
- Tian Yunsheng
- Sound Design
- Shen Sum Sum
- Music
- Jean-Christophe Onno
- Cast
- Tian Tian, Cai Shujie, Bailiga Chaganysten, Gao Ping
Programme IFFR 2023
Short & Mid-length
Just as long as it takes. The Short & Mid-length film programme offers a unique showcase of films under 63 minutes.
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An affecting meditation on the pain experienced by refugees forced to live in limbo.
12'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2023
3 Lieder
Timeless, silent film vignettes based on songs from Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe. A tribute to early film.
7'
Germany
IFFR 2023
3 Peonies
Flowers are stuck down and covered by tape: a wry comment on 20th-century modernist art.
3'
United States
IFFR 2023