XUE SHUI XIAO RONG DE JI JIE – AFTER THE SNOWMELT
Yi-Shan Lo | Taiwan, Japan 2024 | 110 min. | Mandarin, Nepali, English with engl. subtitles
FRIDAY, 09.05. | 9:15 pm
De France, Saal 1 | TICKETS
Chun and Yueh, the filmmaker’s best friends, were trapped in a cave in Nepal for 47 days. Chun died three days before Yueh’s was rescued. He leaves behind a letter asking for his story to be told. Yi-Shan Lo picks up the camera and accompanies Yueh back into the mountains to follow Chun’s footsteps. Their paths gradually overlap with Chun’s, past and present become blurred and finally converge at the destination of the journey: The cave where Chun died.
In XUE SHUI XIAO RONG DE JI JIE, the young adults engage with their first deep-felt experiences of loss. The thoughts and memories of Yi-Shan Lo and the notes from Chun’s letter intertwine to create a moving testimony of a friendship.
Director: Yi-Shan LO
Camera: Yi-Shan LO, Wei-Long TSAI
Editing: Jessica Wan-Yu LIN
Sound: Yannick DAUBY
Production: Yung-Shuang CHEN, Tze-Lan CHO, Yi-Shan LO
SCREENINGS & AWARDS
Visions du Réel, Switzerland (12 – 21 April, 2024)
Burning Lights Competition
Tre Trento FFnto Film Festival, Italy (26 April – 5 May, 2024)
International Competition
Jeonju International Film Festival, South Korea (1 – 10 May, 2024)
International Competition
Docs Against Gravity Film Festival, Poland (10 – 19 May, 2024)
First Appearance Competition
Frameline San Francisco Int. LGBTQ+ Film Festival, United States (19 – 29 June, 2024)
BIOGRAPHY
Yi-Shan LO is an independent filmmaker and author whose fascination with human and non-human relationships in Taiwanese subtropical mountains led her to start making films. Her documentary debut, “After the Snowmelt (2024),” had its world premiere at the Visions du Réel Burning Lights Competition and its Asian premiere at the JEONJU IFF International Competition.
