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 Best International Short Film award at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.