Mosaic Portrait

Ma Sai Ke Shao N

60th TIFF: Greek Premiere

Ying, a 14-year-old girl from a rural Chinese village, is found pregnant and names a schoolteacher as the father. Everyone seems excessively concerned with her predicament, in reality enforcing their way onto her body and mind, tussling around her like dogs over a bone. Ying, at first oblivious to manipulation, slowly emerges from the mists that sweep this godforsaken waste land: she finally owns her story. A moral fable that reassembles the pieces of a shattered mirror into a picture far more elusive and abstract, minding the gaps between the shards. Human nature is a mystery destined to remain unsolved.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.


Direction: Zhai Yixiang
Script: Zhai Yixiang
Cinematography: Wang Weihua
Editing: Matthieu Laclau, Yanshan Tsai
Sound: Li Danfeng
Actors: Wang Yanhui, Wang Chuanjun, Zhang Tongxi
Production: Blackfin Production
Producers: Wang Zijian, Cheng Rui
Sets: Peng Shaoying
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: China
Production Year: 2019
Duration: 108΄
Contact: Rediance, info@rediancefilms.com
Awards/Distinctions: Jury Award (Best Artistic Originality) – First Youth FF 2019

Zhai Yixiang

Beijing-based director Zhai Yixiang made his directorial feature debut with the film This Worldly Life, which was selected to participate at the Chinese Independent Film Festival and went on to receive a number of prizes and accolades in festivals all over the world. His second feature Mosaic Portrait celebrated its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

Filmography

2015 Huan su | This Worldly Life
2019 Ma Sai Ke Shao N | Mosaic Portrait