During the loneliest of summers, shy, 15 year old Xian meets extroverted Mingmei, an 18 year old Chinese-Korean girl and an enchantment begins...
Xian will always remember the loneliest and bluest of summers when she was 15. After her mother has to go abroad for work, Xian is thrown into the care of her father, a free-spirited photographer, who she has barely seen since her parents divorce. He’s struggling financially and is fooling around with his assistant who has an 18-year-old daughter, Mingmei. Soon, Mingmei appears like a ray of shining light to Xian. During this restless summer, the conflict between the innocence and the impulses of youth will leave an indelible mark on Liu…A Song Sung Blue is the winner of the 2024 CinemAsia Jury Award.
With Introduction
A Song Sung Blue is screened in cooperation with the festivals CinemAsia and IFA, International Film Festival Assen. The film will be introduced by Henriëtte Poelman, artistic director of IFA and Ron Ma, programmer from CinemAsia.