In the Name of the Future

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Creative Statement

He, in 2019, "meets" her, in 1941. After they meet, get to know each other and fall in love, a "future" bound up with historical events suddenly arrives. How will they face the crisis?

Synopsis

In November 2019, Lin Xiangdi, 22, is in his graduation year, with a hazy future ahead and stuck on his thesis. At the same moment in 1941, 18-year-old Ying Yueru is full of fighting spirit, with clear goals and her heart set on her country. By chance, the two find they can communicate through a notebook. With Ying Yueru's help, Lin Xiangdi uses "academic material" from the past to complete his thesis; in exchange, Ying Yueru learns the next 78 years of China's history that she has longed to know. Through this lighthearted trade they come to know and understand each other. But Ying Yueru gradually learns that her own future, though it looks bright, is not what she wants. Knowing the outcome in advance, how should she make her decisions now? As time goes on and events unfold, the cruel future finally reveals itself. Facing life and death, the relationship between the individual and the course of history, and the logic connecting the present and the future, what decisions will the two make? And to what future will those decisions lead them?

Subject:

Coming-of-age, Fantasy, Romance

Director:

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Screenwriter:

Jialu

Producer:

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Production Company:

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About the Screenwriter

Jialu: contracted screenwriter and director at China Film Group; original screenwriter of the film Under the Eaves of Beijing; author of the fantasy coming-of-age romance novel The Name of the Future. Graduated from the Department of Dramatic Literature at the Beijing Film Academy in 2018 and later studied at Université Grenoble Alpes in France. Participant in the SIFF NEXT training camp of the Shanghai International Film Festival and the 6th Wu Tianming Young Screenwriters Advanced Workshop. The screenplay Forgetful in Old Age received the 8th Outstanding Young Screenwriter Support Program award of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. The project Goodbye, Our Baishizhou received the Jury Recommended Project and Most Promising Director honors at the Golden Rooster Films Project Market and the Maimeng Co-Growth Program Award at the FIRST project market, and was selected for the FIRST narrative film lab and the Falcon Program, among others.