Tag: China

A Tortoise’s Year of Fate

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Aug 5, 2023 | Festivals, Locarno 2023, Verdict Shorts |

A factory worker wrestles with a dispiriting future in this short about a fortune-telling tortoise and a desire for self-determination.

The Shadowless Tower

Posted by Deborah Young | Feb 20, 2023 | Berlin, Berlin 2023, Festivals, Spotlight |

Zhang Lu’s ‘The Shadowless Tower’ is gentle, impressionistic story set in historic old Beijing is a rambling account of complicated family ties and individual loneliness.