| A Gentle Night | |
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| Director: | Qiu Yang |
| Screenplay: | Qiu Yang |
| Starring: | Li Shuxian |
| Cinematography: | Constanze Schmitt |
| Editing: | Carlo Francisco Manatad |
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| Runtime: | 15 minutes |
| Country: | China |
A Gentle Night (小城二月 Xiao Cheng Er Yue) is a 2017 Chinese short film written and directed by Qiu Yang.[1] It won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
In a nameless small Chinese city, a distressed mother desperately tries to find her missing teenaged daughter throughout the night[2]
The film is set in Changzhou, Jiangsu, China.[3]
The film won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival,[1] and received an honorable mention for the Best International Short Film award at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.[4]