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Original name: Ma Sai Ke Shao Nv
English name: Mosaic Portrait
Year:2019
Run time: 108’
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Type (Colour/ Black & white):Colour
Country: China
Director: Zhai Yixiang
Producers: : Wang Zijian, Cheng Rui
Cast: Wang Yanhui, Wang Chuanjun, Zhang Tongxi
Screenplay: Zhai Yixiang
Cinematographer: Wang Weihua
Editor: Matthieu Laclau, Yanshan Tsai
Sound Designer: Li Danfeng
Music Composers: Zhang Jian
Costume Designer: LU Jianping
Production Designer: Peng Shaoying
Production Company: Blackfin Production
World Sales: Rediance.
World Sales Email: meng@rediancefilms.com
Zhai Yixiang is a young director and screenwriter living in Beijing. His debut feature This Worldly Life (2014) was selected as one of the official finalists in the 11th Chinese Independent FF, and awarded Best Artist Contribution in the 9th FIRST IFF, as well as K26 Best Feature Film in the 15th Filmfest Hamburg. His second feature Mosaic Portrait (2018) won several significant funds before completion, including the Grand Prize in the Golden Horse Film Project Promotion and the White Light Post-Production Award in the WIP Lab of Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum.
Migrant worker Xu comes back home upon finding out about his 14-year-old daughter Ying’s sudden pregnancy. He seeks for justice in vain, when Ying’s school and local authorities promise an investigation but prevaricate over Ying’s accusation against her teacher. Jia, a journalist from Shenzhen, shows interest in the case as he scrutinizes the misty town. When he gets lost in trailing into the rebellious girl’s real life, he lingers around, waiting for the shocking truth to be revealed only after childbirth. At the centre of the whirlpool, Ying endures the spotlight shone on her body with indifference. Shortly after labour, the young mother leaves town to receive social assistance in an effort to heal her past. Will she find peace in her future? Will her inner voice be heard one day?
