Lost Land
Shi Luo Zhi Di · dir. Zhou Yan
China 2012, 25’
Screenings
10/24, 21:45 · Kino Centrum
Marco Polo once described the southern Chinese city of Suzhou as the “Venice of the East”. And yet, where streams once flowed, there is now mainly barren wasteland. A community of travellers now stops here to set up their circus. A single house still stands, all boarded up — but not for long. The wasteland has long since become a place of interest to property speculators. A gang of petty thieves including one named Superman is ordered to expel the circus people.
| Director: | Zhou Yan |
| Screenplay: | Zhou Yan |
| Cinematography: | Han Yan, Jeff Weil-Campbell |
| Editing: | Yu Albert |
| Cast: | Wu Bi, Lipstick Chan |
| Awards: | Oficjalna selekcja / Official Selection – Berlinale (2012) |
Zhou Yan was born in northern China in 1975. She grew up in Suzhou in southern China. She graduated from the Peking Film Academy in 2005, she took part in the Berlinale Talent Campus in 2007.
2012 Programme
- Downloadable programme
- Films from A to Z
- Opening gala
- ON AIR
- SHORTCUT
- FROM POLAND
- Smita Patil’s retrospective
- Phenomena: Blaxploitation
- New Austrian Cinema
- New Philippine cinema
- New Hungarian Cinema
- Forum 2011/2012
- Special screening
- Top 9
- Cultural Exchange
- Localizations
- Festival meetings
- Accompanying events
- Tofishorts in Lizard King