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Suburban Birds
Entrancing. ’Stand by Me' meets Kafka's 'The Castle.'
- Hollywood Reporter
Stylish and seductively inscrutable - Variety
So good and delightfully kinked - New York Times
Drama | China | 2018 | 113 minutes | Color | 1.33 | 5.1/7.1 | Chinese
Trailer
Festivals
2018 Xining FIRST International Film Festival - Best Narrative Feature
2018 Novos Cinema Pontevedra International Film Festival - Best Film
2018 Locarno Int'l Film Festival - Filmmakers of the Present Competition
2018 BFI London Film Festival - Dare Section
2019 San Francisco International Film Festival - Special Jury Award
2019 QCinema Film Festival - Asian Next Wave NETPAC Jury Prize
2019 New Directors/New Films
2020 Hangzhou New Cinema
2020 New Art · Winter Warm Theme Film Festival
2021 Italy Fán Huā Chinese Film Festival
Synopsis
Some ground subsidence has occurred in a suburban area and a team of engineers, including Hao, is dispatched to investigate the cause. After days of wandering around in the empty suburb looking for answers and carrying his heavy gear, Hao walks into a primary school where he finds a diary chronicling the story of a boy and the separation of what seems to be an intimate group. As the investigation keeps going, Hao discovers that this diary might contain prophecies about his own life.
Director
QIU Sheng
Born in Hangzhou, China in 1989, QIU Sheng earned a Bachelor degree of Biomedical Engineering in Tsinghua before getting an MFA degree of film at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is aspired to discover new ways of filmmaking. His works like Winterstare and Golfville have won awards at China Independent Film Festival, Premiere Plans d’Angers, etc. QIU has enrolled in Taipei Golden Horse Film Academy and Xining FIRST International Film Festival FIRST Training Camp.
Cast
Mason LEE
2018 Dead Pigs (Jury Awards for Ensemble Acting, 2018 Sundance Film Festival)
2017 Who Killed Cock Robin
- Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, Taipei Golden Horse Film Awards
2016 Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
HUANG Lu
2019 Summer of Changsha (2019 Un Certain Regard)
2016 A Yellow Bird
2013 How to Describe a Cloud
- Best Performer, Jury Award, Xining FIRST International Film Festival
2009 She, a Chinese
Crew
Director/Writer
QIU Sheng
Producer
Patrick Mao HUANG, CHEN Jingsu
DOP
XU Ranjun
Editor
LIAO Qing Song, JIN Di
Music
Xiaohe
Art Director
YU Ziyang
Sound
TU Duu-Chih, WU Shuyao
Territories: World except Taiwan, China and North America