Alien Observer of Earth Civilization

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Creative Statement

One flees Earth to return to his family; the other flees the urban village to save herself and her family. The framework of the story is how the two protagonists build a bond and become partners on this journey of escape. Through the eyes of two absurd, marginal people, the film looks at real-life predicaments, and through their shared escape they heal each other.

Synopsis

Fanxing claims to be an alien whose people are about to attack Earth. His key communication device is broken and must be repaired in a neighbouring city. Desperate for transport, he meets Nana, who has stolen a motorbike because she urgently needs money for medical bills. Short of money, Nana agrees at once to take him there. On the road the two become partners and set out on a healing journey. Meanwhile, a doctor from the city's psychiatric hospital and the police who received the theft report are searching for them, and finally catch them.

Genre:

Drama, Comedy

Director/Screenwriter:

Huang Xin

Producer:

Song Xiaojia

About the Director/Screenwriter

Huang Xin: director and editor with a background in science and engineering. She has five years of experience in the film and television industry in the US and five years in China, and is a member of the China Film Editors Society. Her mystery short APART, made in New York, was screened at AMC theatres with sponsorship from HBO. Since returning to China in 2018 she has worked on co-production projects and was selected as a trainee in Jackie Chan's Project A program. In 2019 she created the mystery thriller short series Miao Shi Ru Shen, and her sci-fi film Perfect Suicide was selected for the 2022 Blue Planet sci-fi film and television project market. She is based in Beijing, working as an editor and director.

About the Producer

Song Xiaojia: artistic director of Linxiang Culture, graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. She took part in producing and distributing Stranger in the Empty Mountain, selected for the Berlin International Film Festival and the Golden Horse Awards. She produced the feature A Sound Sleep, and works including Lingering Wind, starring Lee Kang-sheng, and We Wish to Be Eaten by the River Monster, which was selected for the HAF Work-in-Progress Lab of the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum.

Logline

To earn the chance to return to his home planet, an alien observer of Earth civilization keeps a low profile in an urban village, working as a recycling collector in a residential compound. So begins the healing journey of a young man with delusions and a desperate motorbike thief.