A Gentle Night

A Gentle Night
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Chinese	小城二月

Directed by	Qiu Yang
Screenplay by	Qiu Yang
Starring	Li Shuxian
Cinematography	Constanze Schmitt^[1]
Edited by	Carlo Francisco Manatad^[1]
Release date	27 May 2017 (2017-05-27) (Cannes) ^[2] (^[3])
Running time	15 minutes^[1]
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]

Plot

In a nameless small Chinese city, a distressed mother desperately try to find her missing teenaged daughter throughout the night ^[4]

The film is set in Changzhou, Jiangsu, China.^[5]

Cast

Li Shuxian as Cai Zhuo^[1]

Reception

The film won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "XIAO CHENG ER YUE". Festival de Cannes (in French). Retrieved 11 June 2017.
↑ "小城二月 (2017)". movie.douban.com (in Chinese). douban.com. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
↑ "小城二月 (2017)". movie.douban.com (in Chinese). douban.com. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
↑ https://whistlerfilmfestival.com/film/gentle-night-xiao-cheng-er-yue/ Whistler Film Festiva
↑ Fergus Ryan (29 May 2017). "Qiu Yang Becomes First Chinese Director To Win Short Film Palme d'Or". China Film Insider. Retrieved 11 June 2017.

Short Film Palme d'Or Winners
1950s	White Mane – Albert Lamorisse (1953) Blinkity Blank – Norman McLaren (1955) The Red Balloon – Albert Lamorisse (1956) Courte Histoire – Ion Popescu-Gopo (1957) N.Y., N.Y. – Francis Thompson (1959) Zmiana warty – Halina Bielinska and Wlodzimierz Haupe (1959)
1960s	La Petite cuillère – Carlos Vilardebo (1961) La Rivière du hibou – Robert Enrico (1961) À fleur d'eau – Alexander J. Seiler and Rob Gnant (1963) Le Haricot – Edmond Séchan (1963) Nyitany – János Vadász (1965) Skaterdater – Noel Black (1966) Sky Over Holland – John Fernhout (1967) Cîntecele Renasterii – Mirel Iliesiu (1969)
1970s	Magic Machines – Bob Curtis (1970) Le Fusil à lunette – Jean Chapot (1972) Balablok – Bretislav Pojar (1973) Ostrov – Fedor Khitrouk, Edouard Nazarov and Vladimir Zouïkov (1974) Lautrec – Geoff Dunbar (1975) Metamorphosis – Barry Greenwald (1976) The Struggle – Marcell Jankovics (1977) Rowing Across the Atlantic – Jean-François Laguionie (1978) Harpya – Raoul Servais (1979)
1980s	Seaside Woman – Oscar Grillo (1980) Moto perpetuo – Béla Vajda (1981) Merlin ou le cours de l'or – Arthur Joffé (1982) Je sais que j'ai tort mais demandez à mes copains ils disent la même chose – Pierre Levy (1983) Le Cheval de fer – Gérald Frydman and Pierre Levie (1984) Chiri – David Takaichvili (1984) Jenitba – Slav Bakalov and Rumen Petkov (1985) An Exercise in Discipline - Peel – Jane Campion (1986) Palisade – Laurie McInnes (1987) Vykrutasy – Garry Bardin (1988) 50 ans – Gilles Carle (1989)
1990s	The Lunch Date – Adam Davidson (1990) Z podniesionymi rekami – Mitko Panov (1991) Omnibus – Sam Karmann (1992) Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California – Jim Jarmusch (1993) El héroe– Carlos Carrera (1994) Gagarin– Alexij Kharitidi (1995) Szél– Marcell Iványi (1996) ...Is It the Design on the Wrapper? – Tessa Sheridan (1997) L'Interview – Xavier Giannoli (1998) When the Day Breaks – Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis (1999)
2000s	Anino – Raymond Red (2000) Bean Cake – David Greenspan (2001) Esö után – Péter Mészáros (2002) Cracker Bag – Glendyn Ivin (2003) Trafic – Catalin Mitulescu (2004) Podorozhni – Igor Strembitsky (2005) Sniffer – Bobbie Peers (2006) Ver Llover – Elisa Miller (2007) Megatron – Marian Crisan (2008) Arena – João Salaviza (2009)
2010s	Barking Island – Serge Avédikian (2010) Cross – Maryna Vroda (2011) Sessiz-Be Deng – Rezan Yeşilbaş (2012) Safe – Byoung-gon Moon (2013) Leidi – Simón Mesa Soto (2014) Waves '98 – Ely Dagher (2015) A Gentle Night - Qiu Yang (2017)

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