Innocent Flesh

23 minutes | 2025 | Fiction | Mandarin, Hokkien | English and Chinese Subtitles
World Premiere

Content Advisory: This film contains scenes of coarse language, violence

The pregnant Ran and her girlfriend Wen return to a coastal village in Fujian. Her body changes, attuning itself to the rhythms of the sea, the land, and mythic memory. Then, her ex-husband returns unannounced.

LIN Yihan is a filmmaker and artist based in Shanghai. She investigates subtle and inexplicable relationships between individuals in the contemporary context, with a particular focus on subjects that are in an insecure, nomadic, and transient state. Her works have been selected for Berlinale, Locarno Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, Grilla 3 Lima Alterna Festival, etc. Innocent Flesh is also her feature project in development, which was selected for the Debut Narrative Feature Development Lab at MulanIFF and won an award at Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF).