Sunken Plum

Sunken Plum (2017)

沉李

Una donna cinese transgender, riceve una visita inaspettata da sua cugina che le dice che sua madre (che non visitava da molto tempo) è morta. Essendo l’unico "figlio maschio", si sente obbligata a tornare al suo luogo di nascita, anche se dovrà nascondersi da famiglia e amici.

Data di uscita
2017-10-21
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (4)
Durata
20 min
Generi
Dramma, Mistero
Regista
Xiaoxi Xu, Roberto F. Canuto

Cast

Curiosità

  • Girato a: Chengdu e Sichuan

Sunken Plum is a Chinese and Spanish drama short film written and directed by Roberto F. Canuto and Xu Xiaoxi and produced with the collaboration of Chinese companies. It was produced by Almost Red Productions in association with Arkadin Ed. and filmed in Sichuan, China.

Production

The filming process of Sunken Plum took place between the middle of September until 9 October 2016 in Sichuan (China).

The locations of the filming were the center of Chengdu, the lake "Bai Ta" and a village in the mountains of Sichuan, "Nan Bu". The main problem regarding setting was finding a suitable village that allow the production team to shoot a scene related to funerals. Superstitions surrounding the dead are very strong in the countryside of China.

Sunken Plum was performed by non professional actors and some scenes required many extras. The leading role was played by the male actor Gu Xiang, who took on the complex character, "Li Wanying", a transgender woman with strong family conflicts.

Regarding the casting process, director Roberto F. Canuto mentions that they “try to find a transgender actress to perform the main role, but it was not possible. Finally, we choose a non-professional actor, but that had some of the qualities and the passion that we were looking for, and we thought he would give a true personality and spontaneity to the role”.

Among the members of the crew it had usually collaborators of the directors, like the producer Leng Zhiwen and the director of photography Guo Yong, with whom they already collaborate in their previous Chinese short film, Floating Melon.

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