Where the Sun shines bright 阳光灿烂的地方, Lam Can-zhao‘s new long feature has gone to so many festivals around the world in the past half year, since its premiere at the 48th Moscow International Film Festival last April.
After the Hofer Filmtage in Germany the past week, upcoming festivals include the South Taiwan Film Festival, the 44th Three Rivers Film Festival in Pittsburgh, Uh-merika and the 32nd Minsk International Film Festival.
Where the Sun shines bright is an anthology film structured around an 18-year-old boy standing on the threshold of adulthood, who revisits his own process of growing up through encounters with four children in a small village in southern China. The film unfolds as four connected fragments, which were originally shot as short films. The stories touch on left-behind children, separation from parents, confusion about the body, the internet, silence, loneliness, and the strange emotional geography of a small southern Chinese village.
Tôn Thất An composed the music for the first segment, Summer Delivery, which is also going to festivals as a stand-alone short.