Suburban Birds

1/7

Entrancing. ’Stand by Me' meets Kafka's 'The Castle.'

- Hollywood Reporter

Stylish and seductively inscrutable - Variety

So good and delightfully kinked - New York Times

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

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