22st(2020)
CHEN Keyun
International Premiere
romance / one-sided love / teenagers / queer
Synopsis
Legend has it, on the night of Chinese Valentine's Day, if one brings 1 ,000 paper stars to some ruins and burns them, the wishes written inside will come true.
Program Note
A girl lies to her childhood friend saying that if she burns a thousand paper stars on July 7th in the lunar calendar, her wishes will come true. On purpose, they promise to burn the paper stars on a day when heavy rain was forecast, but things don't go as planned. The director skillfully utilizes cinematic techniques such as shooting, lighting, and music to create a delicate flow of emotions so that the moment of discovery of sexual identity, and the possibility of heterosexual relationship, does not flow into emotions such as betrayal, condemnation, and rejection. [HWANG Miyojo]
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CHEN Keyun was born in Hsinchu, Taiwan. She graduated from Department of Radio, Television and Film at Shih Hsin University, and got an MFA in Motion Picture from National Taiwan University of Art. She has been writing and directing ever since University, most of the portraits of emotion are base on her personal experience, and the delicacy of human nature is one of her favorite subject.