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Introduction

USA / 2024 / 116 min
Director：Constance TSANG

Amy and Didi are live-in employees at a Chinese massage parlor in Queens, New York. The women form an impenetrable sisterhood, dreaming of opening a restaurant together in Baltimore, where Didi's young daughter lives with her aunt. Meanwhile, Didi starts dating Cheung, a middle-aged construction worker who sends money to his family in Taiwan, and hopes to live together. However, when an unexpected act of violence invades Amy and Didi’s life during Chinese New Year, their dreams are shattered, and a painful absence is left behind… Director Constance Tsang beautifully captures this lingering sadness with rough textures and brooding images in her debut feature with the support of cinematographer Norm Li. Silence tells the story more eloquently than anything else, quietly calling out the loneliness of being an immigrant and how much a presence like family and community can mean when you are far from the place you once called home. The film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival Critics’ Week and won the French Touch Prize.

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