NYAFF 2021

Emerging Voices: Narrative Short Showcase - Missed Connections

Expired August 23, 2021 2:00 AM
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On a humid afternoon, Lin Mingming, an eight-year-old girl, gets caught between her parents' quarrel. The career pursuit and ordinary life heavily burden this family with the imbalance and struggle between parent-child relationship and personal value. The exhausted, impatient, and disappointed parents seem strange to their daughter. "ufo:pm" presents the struggle and imbalance between three ordinary family members' daily lives and their individual willingness: a daughter that doesn't fit into the behaved and polite stereotype, a mother that struggles to sacrifice her own career pursuit and compromises to the family, a father that carries the financial burden and strives to obtain success. This could not be more common in every Chinese household. The three personalities collide on a dining table.

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    13 minutes
  • Language
    Mandarin with English Subtitles
  • Country
    China, United States
  • Premiere
    New York Premiere
  • Director
    Xiao Han
  • Screenwriter
    Xiao Han
  • Producer
    Siying Quan, Rita Zhouran Xiao
  • Cast
    Mingjie Li, Naomi Huang, Haosong Yang
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