66th THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
31 OCTOBER → 9 NOVEMBER 2025
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM: New Cinema from China
China 1999 94 35mm Color
Everyman Lei Haiyang is having girlfriend problems. He quits his job and hitches a ride to Beijing, sharing a ride in the back of a truck with a young female runaway.Waking mid-journey, Lei finds the truck broken down in the woods and the girl missing. Following her screams, he discovers that she’s been raped and that the truck drivers plan to murder him next.When she stumbles across him as they take her away, she doesn’t betray him. He returns home, securing his job back and a semblance of normality, when the police announce that a raped and strangled corpse has been found in the woods. Lei identifies the mutilated body for the police. But then on the subway, he spies a woman who looks just like her...