Short of the Week
Lonely Blue Night
From the director of The Chi
Directed by Johnson Cheng · Starring Alexandre Chen, Grant C. Hansen, Jeffrey M. Hartman, Peter Boon Koh · 2020
A Chinese mother and the daughter she left with an American homestay family reunite for one night, as the cost of that decision slowly surfaces.
A delicate, quietly devastating portrait of a family reckoning with distance and absence.
A portrait of a Chinese family in which the consequences of a mother’s decision to leave her daughter in the care of an American homestay family are slowly unearthed when they reunite on one lonely blue night.
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