Athens International Film Festival
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CAREFREE DAYS | XIAO YAO YOU


CHINA | 2023 | COLOR | DCP | 122’ | MANDARIN

Beyond fancy, single-shot, ultra long and symbolism heavy cinema, lies another fareastern sensibility; a cinema with its feet to the ground, looking up, looking in. In the story of a young woman, who out of the blue suffers from uremia, the life of her poor family collapses, just like the marriage of her incompatible parents. Everything important in our time on earth is shown here. Filmed with modesty you have to overcome in order to enter the world it safeguards, and realism that can be your mirror. Our health, hanging by a thread which keeps us almighty, dreams that suddenly collapse, time around us, choices of what matters. Everything is here. I.D.

DIRECTOR: Ming Liang
SCREENWRITER: Ming Liang
DoP: Wang Meng
MUSIC: B6
EDITOR: Liu Xinzhu
PRINCIPAL CAST: Lyu Xingchen, Li Xueqin, Zhao Bingrui

MING LIANG
Chinese director and screenwriter, born in 1984. He studied Performance Arts in China. He worked as an actor and assistant director before he went behind the camera in 2019 with ‘Wisdom Tooth’, honored at the international festivals of Shanghai and Beijing. This is his second film.

FILMOGRAPHY
2023
Carefree Days
2019 Wisdom Tooth



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