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Land without shores, 9min., China
Directed by Letian Chen
The short film Land Without Shores is a nine minute visual experimental narrative, fully voiced in the Minnan dialect, reflecting and preserving Fujian folk traditions. Set between Minnan and New York, the film explores themes of female identity, intergenerational memory, and a sense of spiritual belonging. Through a film like visual language, it tells the story of Vivi, a photographer born in Minnan and raised in New York, who returns to her hometown after her grandmother’s passing. Within the rituals of the funeral and the recurring imagery of the sea, she undergoes a cross temporal dialogue with herself, ultimately arriving at a quiet reconciliation.
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