Foliage

China, Spain, 2024, 17 minutes, Color, English; Turkish captioned

2024 Atina Uluslararası Film + Video Festivali; Programmers Prize

Director: Faye Shu

Screenplay: Faye Shu
Cinematography: Pablo Paloma
Editing: Hangcheng Xu
Music: Lim Giong
Producer: Yayu Zheng
Production: err films, The South Project, AmbiWishes Technology
Cast: Nikola Penchev, Jinsong Wang, Yang Wang, Armando Trabajo, Tingxiang Zou, Camila Montaldo, Leonor Abreu, Yayu Zheng

College students Ye and Abel meet in a Tibetan art history class. Bonded by a shared sense of being misfits in their own cultures and uncertainty about the future, they take a step into each other’s inner worlds.