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Lonely Blue Night

Johnson Cheng · USA · Drama · 15 min · ♥︎ 239
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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