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Stop Motion Animation/Women | China | 2018 | 95 minutes | Color | 16:9 |

No dialogue

Spending six years of making the film alone, the first timer ZHOU Shengwei pays the tribute to Jan Švankmajer by using daily garbage to make the first Chinese post-modern stop motion animation feature, a timely MeToo fable about a high-heel's revenge.

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Festivals

2018 Shanghai International Film Festival - Main Competition

2018 Paris L’Étrange Festival - International Competition 
2018 Miskolc International Film Festival 
2019 Taipei Film Festival
2019 Montreal Fantasia International Film Festival
2019 Mulan International Film Festival 
2019 Denver Film Festival
2019 Chongqing Youth Film Festival - Competition
2020 Fantastic Film Festival Australia

Synopsis

In the authoritarian world dominated by male shoes, female high heels are forbidden to work. On the other hand, newborn baby girl shoes are destined to be transformed into male shoes so that they can work in the cigarette factory. In the birth prison of female shoes, a high heel mother is expecting a daughter. To protect her unborn child from being turned into a male shoe, she murders the male shoe chief warden and makes a leather coat out of the body of the chief warden. Using the coat as a disguise, she pretends to be a male shoe and works in the cigarette factory to earn her living. After her identity is exposed, the high heel mother is ruthlessly ridiculed and tortured by her male colleagues and superiors at the factory. Driven by such mounting stress, she finally discovers the energy inside her body and starts a slaughter to avenge her daughter.

Director

ZHOU Shengwei

Cast (voice)

LV Fuyang

HAN Ruida

YUE Jiabao

CHEN Wen

CHOI Hoiian

LIU Sai

Crew

Director/Writer/Animator/DOP/Editor

ZHOU Shengwei


Producer

LI Yujian, ZHOU Shengwei


Music

YUAN Sihan

Sound Design

HAN Ruida

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