The Great Phuket / Xiao Ban Jie
Hong Kong, China-France-Germany-Belgium, 97', 2024
age recommendation: 14+
original language: Mandarin Chinese
Li Xing, a fourteen-year-old teenager, lives in the Great Phuket district in South China, a setting of ruins and reconstruction. He doesn’t get along well with his mother who refuses to leave the family house planned for destruction, and the middle school where he studies brings him nothing but problems. One day, he finds an underground shelter where he can escape his teenage life and where strange things are happening.
Liu Yaonan
Born in 1987 in Kunming, China, where he currently lives and works. The screenwriter, director and artist studied Film at the Beijing Normal University and at the École nationale supérieure d’art de Bourges in France. He then made his debut feature film, The Great PhuketXiao Ban Jie, for which he received funding from the China Film Foundation and from the Île-de-France region in France.
Cast & Crew
- direction: Liu Yaonan
- screenplay: Liu Yaonan
- cinematography: Liu Yaonan
- editing: Clara Saunier, Liu Yaonan
- music: Aurélien Krafft
- sound: Ange Hubert, Li Fan
- cast: Li Rongkun, Yang Xuan, Kang Hang, You Junfen, Liu Huiyun, Xie Zhenan
- producers: Cyriac Auriol, Shan Zuolong
- production companies: Remora Films, Monologue Films
Filmography
- Incarnation (2021)
- Imminent Death Experience (2013)
- Two Days (2010)
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