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Interview with Dongnan Chen on "Whispers in May"

Interview with Dongnan Chen on "Whispers in May"

Moviebreak Interviews und Festivals vor 6 Monaten

"We all have this fear we will repeat the fate of our parents"

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Just a few weeks ago, her gentle feature film debut, meandering
between cinéma vérité and rural fairytale, won Dongnan Chen the
main prize at Copenhagen's renowned CPH:DOX film festival. Now the
Chinese filmmaker continues her successful festival journey at
Visions du Réel where her imaginative coping-of-age story about
three young girls from the Yi minority screens in the Grand Angle
section. On the festivals's busy main site, Dongnan Chen spoke with
Lidanoir about the delicate balance between friction and reality in
Whispers in May, finding the local girls who star in it, and her
personal connection to its central themes of migration, social
pressure, and generational responsibilities.