Rou qing shi | Girls Always Happy
Panorama 2018
CHN 2018
by: Yang Mingming
Yang Mingming, Nai An
Rou qing shi | Girls Always Happy
Panorama 2018
CHN 2018
by: Yang Mingming
Nai An, Yang Mingming
Rou qing shi | Girls Always Happy
Panorama 2018
CHN 2018
by: Yang Mingming
Yang Mingming, Nai An
Rou qing shi | Girls Always Happy
Panorama 2018
CHN 2018
by: Yang Mingming
Yang Mingming
Rou qing shi | Girls Always Happy
Panorama 2018
CHN 2018
by: Yang Mingming
Feb 16, 2018Yang Mingming
The actress at the Photo Call.
Panorama – Rou qing shi | Girls Always Happy
Feb 16, 2018Nai An, Yang Mingming, Yuan Li
The director and actress with two of her actresses on the Red Carpet at Zoo Palast.
Panorama – Rou qing shi | Girls Always Happy
Feb 16, 2018the film team and Paz Lázaro
On the Red Carpet at Zoo Palast with the Panorama section head.
Panorama – Rou qing shi | Girls Always Happy
Feb 16, 2018Yang Mingming, Paz Lázaro
The director and the section head on the Red Carpet at Zoo Palast.
Panorama – Rou qing shi | Girls Always Happy
SHEN Xiaomin (Director of Photography), NAI An (Actress), YANG Mingming (Director, Screenwriter, Actress), YANG Jing (Producer)
Moderation: Jenni Zylka
‘My boyfriend’s disappeared’, shouts a neighbour as Wu rattles past on her scooter through the narrow alleys. ‘Serves you right’, she snaps back without turning around. Wu is in her mid-twenties and lives with her mother in a traditional one-storey house in one of Beijing’s hutongs. Both consider themselves to be writers, but success has so far eluded them. The fact that Wu is supported by a divorced, elderly man helps the women through lean periods. Their unhealthily close relationship is characterised by reproaches and quibbling; only during meals do they appear to lay down their verbal weapons. The situation escalates when both Wu and her mother hit an emotional low.
Yang Mingming’s first feature film is a humorous psychological portrait of a fragile mother-daughter relationship. Detailed images tell of an intimacy born of despair and at the same time provide their ironic refraction. The two women’s sarcasm magnifies their personal disasters but on the other hand, time and again, it also gives rise to hope.
by
Yang Mingming
People’s Republic of China 2018
Mandarin
117’
World premiere
Nai An (Mother)Yang Mingming (Wu)Zhang Xianmin (Zhangxian)Li Qinqin (Zhuyuan)Huang Wei (Grandpa)Yuan Li (YuShan)Li Wenbo (Baogang)
Born in Beijing, China in 1987, she grew up with her mother in the ancient Hutong area of the city. She now lives alone with two elephant dolls and calls herself ‘Elephant’ in English. Rou qing shi (Girls Always Happy) is her debut feature film.
Filmography2012 Female Directors; short film 2018 Rou qing shi (Girls Always Happy)
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2018
Beijing Trend Cultural Investment
Parallax Filmsparallaxchina.com/