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STRANGER
JU WAI REN

• Director: Zhengfan Yang
• USA, CHINA, THE NETHERLANDS, NORWAY, FRANCE / 2024 / DCP / Colour / 113’ / Mandarin, Cantonese, English; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Zhengfan Yang
• Director of Photography: Zhengfan Yang
• Editing: Zhengfan Yang
• Cast: Jing Jin, Liguo Yuan, Baohe Xue
• Producer: Shengze Zhu
• Production Co.: Burn The Film
• World Sales: Pascale Ramonda

2024 Karlovy Vary Grand Prize– Proxima

The hotel room as a place where everyone is a stranger. A place that is yours for just a moment. A temporarily intimate space entered by a maid in order to clean it while, if possible, not leaving a trace of her visit. Each episode of Stranger is set in such a place, and each is captured in one long take. Weaving together a series of episodic stories – some humorous and absurd, some poignant and mysterious – that all unfold within a seemingly confined space, Stranger explores the idea of home while being away from it, and sheds light on the distinctive yet universal experiences of isolation and loneliness. ’A hotel room is generic and idiosyncratic at the same time – all the hotel rooms in the world are distinct in kind, yet similar in nature,’ says director Zhengfan Yang, ’In a broader sense, they are a miniature representation of the rootlessness of urban life.’

* In accordance with Article 7 of the Law No. 5224 amended on 18.01.2019, cinema films that have not been reviewed and classified can only be screened in festivals, special screenings and similar cultural and artistic events with an 18+ age restriction.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.