52nd edition of New Directors/New Films
Festival&Award
CHEN WEN YUAN
陈文媛
CHINA | 2022 | 29mins | Drama
Director: LI Yingyi
Screenwriter: LI Yingyi
Executive Producer: ZHENG Dasheng
Producer: SI Wen
Cinematographer: WEN Yifan
Editor: LIN Mengchao, LI Yingyi
Art Director: CHEN Ran
Sound: LIU Mengna, LIU Lisa
Starring: MEI Ting, QIU Tian
导演：李颖怡
编剧：李颖怡
监制：郑大圣
制片：思文
摄影指导：文一帆
剪辑：林梦超、李颖怡
美术指导：陈然
声音：刘蒙娜、刘丽萨
主演：梅婷、邱天
Synopsis
In a maternity hospital, an anxious young woman sits on a bench waiting for her B-scan pregnancy test. On accident, she drops a button, she's been rubbing and encounters the woman next to her - someone that looks twice her age.
The two women have a chat, get to know each other's lives, and even begin to share their secrets..."Next patient, Chen Wenyuan. Please enter the B-scan room."
Two women, one button. A soulful encounter in motherhood.
Director's Note
Festival&Award
This year marks the third anniversary of Chinese two-child policy. This film is my conversation with a 40-year-old myself, both doing pregnancy tests. One is a self-aware, but unprepared young woman. The other is a disciplined but infertile house wife.
The waiting room is a space for woman-to-woman subjects, a space of female maturity and a space of female recollection and reflection. Through a parallel narrative forming around both reality and inner spaces, the film immerses viewers into a suspenseful and psychological journey. An off-the-trail housewife’s self-pity showcases the female struggles and sentiments after the realization and enlightenment.
LI Yingyi
LI Yingyi, Master of Fine Art (directing direction) of The Central Academy of Drama.
Her feature debut SHALL WE TALK was selected at the 13th FIRST International Film Festival. At the same time, she directed and produced multiple NGO and avant-garde theatre plays.