After All

25 minutes | 2024 | Fiction | English, German | English and Chinese Subtitles
North American Premiere

Content Advisory:  This film contains scenes of themes of suicide.

Based on the director’s personal experience, this film follows a university student in Berlin who, after discovering a classmate’s suicide on campus, begins attending counselling sessions.

LIU Chongyan (b. 1995 in Guizhou, China) is a visual artist and filmmaker working between France and China. She began her formal training in painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing (2013-2017), after which she continued her studies at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, obtaining a Diplôme National Supérieur d’Arts Plastiques in 2022 under the mentorship of Atelier Cogitore and Atelier Halilaj-Urbano. In 2024, she completed a residency at Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains, where she expanded her practice in visual arts with a focus on multimedia and audiovisual experimentation. MulanIFF screend her short film Is there a Pine on the Mountain in 2023.