Proxima Competition 2024 / Ju wai ren / USA, China, Netherlands, Norway, France 2024
The hotel room as a place where everybody is a stranger. A place that is yours for just a moment. A temporarily intimate space that a maid enters in order to clean it while, if possible, not leaving a single trace of her visit. Each part of the episodic Stranger is set in just such a place. One episode equals one shot. One shot equals one story. What they have in common is China, the home country of both guests and staff, although each of their lives differs from the others. The film’s absurd, darkly humorous, poignant, and mysterious stories are set in a seemingly confined space that nevertheless opens up new and surprising dimensions with each episode.
Anna Kořínek
113 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Zhengfan Yang
/ Screenplay Zhengfan Yang
/ Dir. of Photography Zhengfan Yang
/ Sound Jos van Galen
/ Editor Zhengfan Yang
/ Art Director Nuanqi Chen
/ Producer Shengze Zhu
/ Production Burn The Film
/ Coproduction Baldr Film, Norsk Filmproduksjon, Les Films de l'Après-Midi
/ Cast Jing Jin, Liguo Yuan, Baohe Xue
/ Contact BURN THE FILM, Gloria Zerbinati
Zhengfan Yang (1985, China). Selected filmography: Distant (Yuan fang, 2013), Where Are You Going (Ni wang he chu qu, 2016, doc.), Footnote (2022, doc.), Stranger (Ju wai ren, 2024).
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Gloria Zerbinati
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Zhengfan Yang
Film Director
Shengze Zhu
Producer
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