Mulan International Film Festival is proud to present our January Year-Round Programme: An Elephant Sitting Still!

China | 234 minutes | 2018 | Fiction | Mandarin Chinese | English Subtitles

中国 | 234 分钟 | 2018 | 虚构 | 普通话 | 英文字幕

Berlin International Film Festival 2018

FIPRESCI Prize, International Forum of New Cinema

2018 柏林国际电影节 - 影评人费比西奖（论坛单元）

Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 2018

Best Feature Film, Best Adapted Screenplay

2018 台北金马影展 - 最佳剧情片、最佳改编剧本

About the Film 电影简介

Under the gloomy sky of a small town in northern China, different protagonists’ lives are intertwined in this furious tale of nihilistic rage. While protecting his friend from a dangerous school bully, 16-year-old WEI Bu pushes the tormentor down a staircase. WEI escapes the scene and later learns that the bully is hospitalized and gravely injured.WEI’s neighbor, the 60-year-old WANG Jin, is estranged from his family and, with nothing to lose, decides to join him. Later the pair is joined by HUANG Ling, WEI’s classmate.She is bedeviled by a destructive affair with a married school official. Together, this unlikely and desperate trio, decide their only hope is to flee as the bully’s gangster brother, enraged parents, and vindictive school authorities embark on a cold-blooded hunt for WEI across town. As WEI threads his way through the urban wilderness, he begins to cometo terms with his own lost life. In the end, he boards a long-distance bus with HUANG and WANG toward a city in Manchuria, where it is a rumored that a circus elephant is said to be sitting still, seemingly oblivious to pain and tribulations of the world at large.

Director 导演

Hu Bo (Writer and Director) Born in 1988 in China, Hu Bo graduated from Beijing Film Academy in 2014 with a B.F.A. degree in directing. His short film Distant Father (2014) won Best Director 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 FIRST Training Camp under the supervision of Béla Tarr, where he completed the short film Man in the Well. He has also written two novels Huge Crack and Bullfrog, both published in 2017.

Hu Bo took his own life soon after finishing An Elephant Sitting Still.

Credits 演职员名单

Director 导演：HU Bo 胡波

Principal Cast 主演：ZHANG Yu 章宇、 PENG Yuchang 彭昱畅、WANG Yuwen 王玉雯、LIU Congxi 李从喜

Screenplay 编剧：HU Bo 胡波

Cinematographer 摄影：FAN Chao 范超

Editor 剪辑：HU Bo 胡波

Production Designer 美术指导: XIE Lijia

Sound 音效：REN Yiming