San Fu Tian

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Endless dog days of summer weigh heavily on the impoverished suburb of Changsha where a young mother, Lulu, works as a dancer in a cheap nightclub. Coming home late one night, she discovers that her boyfriend Bai Long has disappeared with their baby. Her desperate search takes her to a transvestite bar where gay man Sunny is performing; he knows the whereabouts of the child’s father. A deal is struck between the odd couple whose lives are now fatefully intertwined: Lulu wants her child back and, in return, agrees to not stand in the way of Bai Long’s and Sunny’s homosexual relationship. In a hotel in Shanghai events come to a head as emotional and erotic trials and tribulations pile up. It transpires that, pretending the child’s mother had died, Bai Long has now sold his son to a wealthy couple, a doctor and his wife. What does the future hold for Lulu and her child?

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  • Runtime

    95 min
  • Country

    Hong Kong, China
  • Year of Presentation

    2016
  • Year of Production

    2016
  • Director

    Jordan Schiele
  • Cast

    Luo Lanshan, Huang Lu, Tian Mu Chen, Xing Dan Wen
  • Production Company

    Making Film Productions Limited
  • Berlinale Section

    Panorama
  • Berlinale Category

    Feature Film

Biography Jordan Schiele

Born in Brooklyn, New York, he now lives in Beijing. He first began working on film sets in Shanghai. He studied law and Mandarin at Oxford University and at Bowdoin College, Maine, USA and then film directing and cinematography at New York University Tisch School of the Arts Asia in Singapore. His short films and commercials have screened at the Cannes, Tribeca and Locarno film festivals and he made his directing debut at the latter with the short film 5CM. The screenplay for his debut feature film SAN FU TIAN was selected for the Cinéfondation-Résidence in Cannes.

Filmography Jordan Schiele

2010 Canvas | 2010 Double Happiness | 2011 Shi Nian Hou | 2012 Prank | 2014 Wu Gui