A Dog Barking at the Moon
Panorama 2019
CHN/ESP 2019
by: Xiang Zi
Ji Nan
A Dog Barking at the Moon
Panorama 2019
CHN/ESP 2019
by: Xiang Zi
Xing Ming, Jiang Bing
A Dog Barking at the Moon
Panorama 2019
CHN/ESP 2019
by: Xiang Zi
Hua Naren
A Dog Barking at the Moon
Panorama 2019
CHN/ESP 2019
by: Xiang Zi
Feb 11, 2019Nan Ji
The leading actress of the Chinese film.
Panorama – A Dog Barking at the Moon
Feb 11, 2019Xiang Zi, Nan Ji
The director and the leading actress of the Chinese film.
Panorama – A Dog Barking at the Moon
When the young student Li Jiumei meets her future husband Huang Tao, she is youthful and happy; her daughter Huang Xiaoyu has not yet been born and the secrets of the family are still hidden behind closed doors deep inside the house. Her daughter Huang Xiaoyu is already a young girl when creeping suspicion overcomes Li Jiumei. She kicks down a door behind which she catches her husband with a young man. Huang Xiaoyu is now pregnant and living in the USA; a little while later she returns to pay a visit with her boyfriend. She discovers that, in addition to bitterness and hatred, the teachings of an ominous sect have now also spread throughout the house.
Chinese director Xiang Zi masterfully interweaves the narrative strands of this complex family saga that unfolds simultaneously in different periods. In carefully composed and at times surreal images, a chronicle of reticence gradually unfolds that has much larger dimensions than one might first assume. This is a tale of suppressed desire, the social importance of marriage, and the frostiness that exists between the walls of a wealthy Chinese family home.
by
Xiang Zi
People's Republic of China / Spain 2019
Mandarin
107’ · Colour
World premiere
Nan Ji (Huang Xiaoyu)Naren Hua (Li Jiumei)Zhang Xinyue (Young Huang Xiaoyu)Wu Renyuan (Huang Tao)Thomas Fiquet (Benjamin)Ming Xing (Liu Yuanyuan)Jiang Bing (Young Li Jiumei)Chen Zhengyuan (Feng Xi)Dilian Fangxin (Chen Yumeng)Wang Xilu (Gu Man)
Born in Beijing, China in 1987, she is a director and screenwriter. She graduated in economics at Beijing Forestry University before going on to study film in New York. After marrying her classmate and fellow filmmaker José Val Bal, the pair moved to Spain where they worked together on documentaries and web series. She completed the script for her debut feature film, A Dog Barking at the Moon, in August 2017 and shot the film in June 2018, when she was four months pregnant with her second daughter. She also writes short stories and poetry.
Filmography2009 The Wanted; short film 2010 9 o’Clock; short film 2011 Boat to Thailand; short film · The Last Zebra in New York; short film · Paganini for Two; short film 2012 The Temptation of Vanity; short film 2013 Lycoris Radiata (Manjusaka); short film
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2019
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