Rebel with a Cause Award - Tallin Black Nights 2024
The film - inspired by Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman - imagines the emancipation of women from the confines of narrow spaces and the tedium of routine lives. Echoing a deeply felt yearning to break free, the film strives to transcend its own boundaries, while metamorphosing the cinematic image into a fluid, feminine essence, revealing her multifaceted nature in a timeless space.
Ruiqi Lu was born in 1999, in Zhejiang, China. She is a film director and fiction writer. Contact Lens (2024) is her first feature film.
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