APM - Asian Project Market

2023 Project

Logline

Facing her old friend’s suicide and the fact that her first painting teacher is in the final stage of cancer, 40-year-old Lu Yun tries to face the situation.

Synopsis

Forty-year-old film director Lu Yun received the news that her old friend Qing He had committed suicide. She hurried back to her hometown Nanjing to attend Qing He′s funeral. Besides, she visited her first painting teacher who was suffering from the terminal cancer.
Lu Yun′s boyfriend Zhen Ting, an art historian, was far away in Dunhuang for the research of the fresco of Mogao Grottoes. He had been suffering from a mild depression in the recent years and he choose to copy the fresco as part of his research.
Lu Yun didn′t talk much about the sorrow she felt to Zhen Ting in consideration of his depression. And actually he had a complicated feeling towards what happened.
Lu Yun met a young man Chun who was also Qing He’s friend at the funeral and later got closer to him through the contact in the reason of Qing He. Their reaction to Qing He′s suicide brought them into a further relationship. And Lu Yun knew it was temporary.
Her teacher′s life came to an end, however he retained his dignity.
Realizing that she didn′t want to lose Zhen Ting, Lu Yun went to Dunhuang to see him.

Director's Statement

The film tries to describe how people face the situation that their dear friend has left or is leaving. To describe the shock that they are going through and the turbulence that the situation brought to them. And how they take it into their heart, and keep going on.
Chinese traditional art is an important undertone of the film. For it represents human’s spiritual world, also for an idea of the conception of the time.
Though, the film′s main focus is on people, on the human beings’ fragility and the effort they make.

Producer's Statement

Full Moon is the third feature film project by Song Fang, whose first film Memories Look at Me (Song Fang, 2012) and second film The Calming (Song Fang, 2020) were highly appreciated by international film festival circuit.
Although the film is far from ordinary commercial films, I believe this film can hold Song Fang’s authentic cinematic style and will be again welcomed by international film festivals. I also believe that worldwide audiences can sympathize the story of the film a lot, because the elements which appear in the film, such as love, friendship, aging, etc., are very common subjects.

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