Making more and more inroads into auteur world cinema with the likes of Fernando Eimbcke, Michel Franco and Lance Hammer, Greenwich Entertainment have now completed some post-Cannes shopping landing the remarkable feature debut and Cannes Critics’ Week winner in Zou Jing‘s A Girl Unknown. Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize and the Gan Foundation Award, this just won the CineVision competition prize for Best International Film by an Emerging Director. This could play at TIFF, NYFF and several regional film fests before it’s eventual theatrical release. We had the chance to speak to the filmmaker while in Cannes – you can find that interview below.
Working with themes of identity and belonging, gender discrimination, and family as both a source of refuge and trauma, this unfolds over 15 years during the peak of China’s strict One Child policy with its traumatic impact on young girls. It follows her tumultuous journey as she lives across four distinct households and takes on three different names, exploring the deep existential anxieties of adoption. Child actresses Cao Ruofan and Li Gengxi star in the same — same role.
