2024 - 69th Edition

Blue Sun Palace

Constance Tsang

United States

- 2024

Estreno nacional

Constance Tsang's first feature film, winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Critics' Week, explores the daily lives of two Chinese immigrants in Flushing, a neighbourhood in Queens (New York) where the director grew up. Many of her personal and family experiences are translated into the story of Amy and Didi, workers at a massage parlour whose name gives the film its title. United by a feeling of rootlessness, the two women form a strong friendship that is put to the test after an unexpected tragedy during the Lunar New Year. On top of this, each has a relationship with the same married man, played by Taiwanese director and actor Lee Kang Sheng, a regular collaborator of Tsai Ming-Liang. Melancholic, moving and humanistic, Blue Sun Palace captures the feelings and motivations of this triangle of characters, traversed by the desire for love, grief and the need to find their place in the world.

Constance Tsang

She is a Chinese American writer, director, and educator based in New York. She graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in Screenwriting and Directing where she was awarded the Robert Gore Rifkind Launch Fund. Her short film ‘Eau’ (2021) received Jury Selects from an industry panel at her thesis showcase and won the Directors Guild of America’s Jury Prize in their 26th Annual Student Film Awards (East Coast Asian American Category). Her previous short film, ‘Carnivore’, was a 2018 AT&T Hello Lab project. Her work is supported by Starlight Stars Collective and Tribeca Film. Her debut feature, ‘Blue Sun Palace’ (2024), was presented at the Critics’ Week of the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the French Touch Jury Prize.

O.V. in Mandarin, English with English and Spanish subtitles

Thu. 24, 22:00

Teatro Zorrilla

Presentation

Q&A