An Elephant Sitting Still

Da Xiang Xi Di Er Zuo

Under the gloomy sky of a small town in northern China, the lives of different desperate people get intertwined in the course of one single, tension-filled day from dawn to dusk. A lugubrious tale of nihilistic rage, painting a portrait of a society marked by selfishness, leading its members to sacrifice what they value the most..

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Direction: Hu Bo
Script: Hu Bo
Cinematography: Fan Chao
Editing: Hu Bo
Sound: Ren Yiming
Music: Hua Lun
Actors: Zhang Yu, Peng Yuchang,Wang Yuwen, Liu Congxi
Production: Dongchun Films Co., Ltd
Producers: Liu Xuan
Art Direction: Xie Lijia
Costumes: Qiying Deng, Xiaoxue Kang
Camera: Peng Tong, Kuncai Xu, Lu Deng, Xiaoqiang Jia, Xiaoyu Shao
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: China
Production Year: 2018
Duration: 234΄
Contact: Rediance
Awards/Distinctions: Best First Feature Award & FIPRESCI Prize – Berlin IFF 2018, Audience Choice Award – Hong Kong IFF 2018, Universities Culturgest Award – IndieLisboa International Independent IFF 2018, Audience Award – T-Mobile New Horizons IFF 2018

Hu Bo

Hυ Bo, writer and director was born in China in 1988 and graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 2014 with a BFA degree in Directing. His short film Distant Father (2014) won the Best Director award at Golden Koala Chinese Film Festival, and Night Runner (2014) was selected by Taipei Golden Horse Film Academy. His debut feature An Elephant Sitting Still, which was then still in progress, was selected by the first International Film Festival Financing Forum in 2016. In the following year, Hu Bo participated in the FIRST Training Camp under the supervision of Béla Tarr, where he completed the short film Man in the Well. Hu Bo took his own life soon after finishing An Elephant Sitting Still.

Filmography

2016 Jing li de ren | Man in the Well (short)
2018 Da Xiang Χi Di Er Zuo | An Elephant Sitting Still