HARBIN, HEADING SOMEWHERE

Feb 26

Written By Huihui Lou

Director Yanqi Chen
Genre Hybrid Documentary
Location Harbin
Language Chinese, Japanese, Russian
Running time 120 minutes
Stage of production in development
Country of production France, China
Year 2028

LOGLINE

A traveler’s voice drifts through Harbin, where “ghosts” from different eras wander amid the endless cycle of ice and snow construction, searching for a place in a city constantly being rewritten.

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DIRECTOR — Yanqi Chen

Yanqi Chen is a new director and screenwriter based in China.
After graduating from London Film School in 2016, he started to work on his first feature film Day Tripper, which has been selected in the 39th Warsaw International Film Festival, the 7th Pingyao International Film Festival, the 46th Moscow International Film Festival, the 23rd Transilvania International Film Festival. Also it has won the Grand Prix in the 38th Fribourg International Film Festival in 2024.
Apart from the feature, he also made some shorts in the meantime.

Huihui Lou

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