A Gentle Night


A Gentle Night is a 2017 Chinese short film written and directed by Qiu Yang. It won the Short [Film Palme d'Or] at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.

Plot

In a nameless small Chinese city, a distressed mother desperately tries to find her missing teenaged daughter throughout the night
The film is set in Changzhou, Jiangsu, China.

Cast

  • Li Shuxian as Cai Zhuo

    Reception

The film won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, and received an honorable mention for the Toronto [International Film Festival Award for Best International Short Film|Best International Short Film] award at the 2017 [Toronto International Film Festival].