When All My Dining Buddies Fell in Love

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Creative Statement

When all my dining buddies fell in love, Wang Xiaolu started to panic. So as not to eat alone, Wang Xiaolu began searching for her own happiness. But she found that, in this day and age, the need for romance seems to have disappeared...

Synopsis

Wang Xiaolu is an ordinary young woman, so ordinary that even automatic doors fail to open for her. While her peers wear themselves out competing, Wang Xiaolu and her dining buddies live a relaxed life of checking in at new restaurants and eating their way around town. Shen Zhaowen, a sharp and capable professional; Ding Zhiyan, an easygoing and talkative designer; and Feng Yang, a tearful young man who lives for romance: from slacking off to chowing down, the four do everything together. But as the age of 30 approaches, Wang Xiaolu's dining buddies, one after another, begin to make their peace with reality. The once lively dinner table is left with only Wang Xiaolu. So as not to eat alone, Wang Xiaolu starts interviewing odd new buddies and even hides in an ambiguous relationship, drifting into a romance that does not make her happy. In an age when a "buddy" can account for any relationship, the need for romance has disappeared and every relationship is "low-key"; even her family back home have become "holiday buddies" she sees only once a year. And all Wang Xiaolu wants is not to eat alone...

Subject:

Romance, Comedy

Director:

Qiu Linkai, Liu Jinkai

Screenwriter:

Qiu Linkai, Li Ruiqi

Producer:

Chen Xuhan

Executive Producer:

N/A

Production Company:

N/A

About the Director

Qiu Linkai: screenwriter and director; member of the screenwriters' committee of the China TV Artists Association and of the Shaanxi Film Association. Has worked as a screenwriter on films including Ping-Pong: The Triumph, My People, My Country (The Eve segment) and Bureau 749. Liu Jinkai: director and screenwriter; member of the China Dramatists Association and visiting professor at the Film and Television Center of Sichuan Normal University. His work has screened at the Cannes Film Festival and received the award for Best Artistic Contribution at the 39th Montreal World Film Festival. Director of the films Willow Catkins and Pandora Rhapsody, and of the short drama The Harp's Mistake (exclusive on Kuaishou, 110 million views).

About the Screenwriter

Qiu Linkai: screenwriter and director; member of the screenwriters' committee of the China TV Artists Association and of the Shaanxi Film Association. Credits: lead screenwriter of the adaptation of the classic The New Story of a Noble Family; screenwriter of the online film Landmine Warfare and the sci-fi web series Steel Town, and of the theatrical film Target in the Dark; the wuxia films How to Secure the Nation and The Dragon Dance Swordsman are about to wrap. Landmine Warfare was selected for the International Film Festival & Awards Macao. Li Ruiqi: young screenwriter with an MFA from Peking University. Her independently made short It's for Your Own Good was selected by the China Golden Rooster & Hundred Flowers Film Festival; her screenplays have been selected for the China Film Administration's screenwriter support program and the Guangzhou University Student Film Festival. She has worked on the screenplays of projects including the Hunan TV series Extraordinary Doctor, and has collaborated with directors including Lu Chuan and Li Yugang.

About the Producer

Chen Xuhan: film development executive and producer. Entered the industry in 2017 and has served as executive producer at Beijing Tianshang Yingxiang Culture Co., Ltd., head of entertainment at Beijing Fengtian Xiaoxu Culture Co., Ltd., and producer at Xi'an Lebuduan Film and TV. Has taken part in the development and production of films including Bureau 749, Safe and Sound, Silver Days, Steel Town and Target in the Dark.