From Dawn To Dawn 昨夜的歌

From Dawn to Dawn
La noche de la infancia

昨夜的歌

Spain, France | 2026 | Documentary | 94 min | (o.v.) Spanish, Mandarin, Qingtian Dialect

Director: Xisi Sofia Ye Chen

Screenwriter: Xisi Sofia Ye Chen

Producers: Ricard Sales, Pedro Palacios, Luis Ferrón, Marta LaCima, Leonor Abreu, Ran Shao, Camila Montaldo, Marina Perales Marhuenda, Xavier Rocher

Cinematographer: Pablo Paloma

Editor: Juliana Montañés

Art Director: Roman Cadafalch

Sound: Julia Obradors

Music: Lukas Mathias, Román Daniel

Cast: A Wen, Xisi Sofia Ye Chen (voice over)

Synopsis

When we were kids, we watched gangster films together from Hong Kong’s golden era. When we grew up, my older brother became a gangster. I became a filmmaker.

Festival&Award

2026 Visions du Reel – International Feature Film Competition

Director’s Statement

A Wen, 38, a businessman and family man in Barcelona, is also the filmmaker’s brother. Just like in the gangster movies they watched on VHS as kids, he became involved in the gangs of the Chinese community in Spain in his youth. Without judgement or romanticization, Xisi Sofia Ye Chen observes a man torn between criminal heritage, familial duty and a search for moral clarity, composing an intimate and powerful portrait.

Xisi Sofia Ye Chen

Daughter of Chinese immigrants who settled in post-Olympic Barcelona, Xisi Sofia Ye Chen (b. Barcelona, 1994) grew up between Qingtianese, Mandarin, Catalan, and Spanish. She holds a degree in Humanities and a Master's in Creative Documentary from Pompeu Fabra University. Her cinematic work emerges from cultural hybridity and the exploration of identities shaped by migration.

In 2026, she premieres her first feature film, FROM DAWN TO DAWN (Márgenes Work Award, Lau Haizetara Forum Award, Zinebi Networking, D'A Final Cut), a documentary about her brother in which a gangster past and a spiritual quest coexist within the context of the uprootedness of the Chinese community in Spain.