• Manting - Film Still
  • Manting - Film Still
  • Manting - Film Still
  • Manting - Film Still
  • Manting - Film Still

Manting

曼婷

CHEN Shuyao

15 minutes | 2023 | Fiction | Mandarin | English Subtitles
Toronto Premiere

12:00 PM, SAT, AUG 10
Innis Town Hall
Screening with
DIANA (15 mins), Tanjong Rhu (The Casuarina Cove) (19 mins), To Write from Memory (18 mins), Baby Gay (9 mins), Something Blue (14 mins)

Manting (ZHANG Yijing), a Chinese woman in her early 60s, reconnects with her lesbian lover (ZHANG Min) from adolescence. After a class reunion, they spend a night together, wandering through the city and reliving memories.

Director

Photo of CHEN Shuyao

CHEN Shuyao was born and raised in Wenzhou, a coastal city in Southeast China. She moved to New York in 2018 to pursue a MFA degree at NYU after she completed her studies in photojournalism at Penn State University. Her first short film Winter by the River won Best Actor (Asian International Competition) at Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2022 and Best Short Film at Berlin Film Week 2022, and was selected by HollyShorts Film Festival 2022.

Credits

  • Director: CHEN Shuyao
  • Principal Cast: ZHANG Yijing, ZHANG Min
  • Producer: HU Yuanxing
  • Screenplay: CHEN Shuyao
  • Cinematographer: WEN Yifan
  • Production Designer: HOU Zongjian
  • Costume Designer: YE Zixin
  • Editor: CHEN Shikong
  • Sound: HUANG Aobo
  • Music: Seowon Hyun
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