In an effort to escape her troubled past, Jin Xia, a Chinese woman, marries a Korean man named Lee Seung-hun in exchange for legal status in South Korea. One night, Xia encounters a green-haired girl enveloped in an enigmatic aura and becomes involved in the dangerous world of drug dealing.
Attracted to the girl for some inexplicable reason, Xia takes her home and the two end up killing Seung-hun in a not-so-accidental accident. The pair go on the run, but Xia returns to the crime scene to retrieve the drugs the green-haired girl left behind...

Berlin Film Festival 2023 - Panorama

Director Han Shuai Screenwriters Han Shuai, Lei Sheng Producers Liu Ziyi Wang Jing Cast Fan Bingbing, Lee Joo Young Editor Tom Lin Director of Photography Matthias Delvaux Kim Hyun Seok Production Designer Lee Hwa Sung Costume Designer Yi Choongyun Original Music Hank Lee Sound Supervisor Zhu Yunhao Head of Make-up & Hair Kye Seonmi Gaffer Lee Dong Jin Colorist Tang Qiang Year 2023 Category Fiction Languages Korean and Mandarin Run time 92 mns Country Hong Kong Production company Demei Holdings Limited
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HAN Shuai is a Chinese film director and screenwriter. Her debut feature SUMMER BLUR won the Grand Prix in the Generation Kplus competition section at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival, the FIPRESCI Award in the New Currents section at the 2020 Busan International Film Festival, Jury Award at the 2020 Pingyao International Film Festival's Feimu Awards section, Best Director and Best Actress for newcomer HUANG Tian in the Firebird Young Cinema competition at the 2021 Hong Kong International Film Festival.

I was born in a port city in China across from the South Korean city of Incheon, separated by the sea. As a child, I saw many women embark on a journey across the ocean, driven by their unshakable determination to earn a better wage in Korea and escape the anxiety they faced in their hometown. Many of them never returned. To some, their disappearance seemed gratuitous, but I soon inferred it must have been a conscious choice they made after enduring repression of their dreams and desires. As a young girl, I often wondered about their adventures in an unknown land, even feeling a yearning for their journey.

As I grew up, started working, and got married, I noticed changes in the way women were positioning themselves in the world. Although it seemed like women had more say in various aspects of life, they were still subject to condescending scrutiny. Our attempts at freedom were pre-approved and pre- tolerated by the ghost of an unseen power.

This new plight fueled the rekindling of my imagination of those women’s adventures. I hope to revisit their unshakable determination with this story and find the courage to face the faceless ghost.

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