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Closed Today for Personal Reasons

Creative Statement

Lin Feng, who attends classes and sits exams for other students on a university campus, is led by law professor Jiang Ming into the business of professional store closures. The 'gifted' Lin Feng and a group of aimless young people expand the business, but things gradually spiral out of control, and Lin Feng and Jiang Ming each try to use the other to reach their real goals...

Genre:

Drama, Crime

Director:

Cai Kunyu

Screenwriter:

Lin Xiao, Wang Hanmo

Producer:

Lin Xiao

Production Company:

N/A

About the Director

Born in 1997 in Zhangzhou, Fujian. Received bachelor's and master's degrees from the Beijing Film Academy. Explores ways to combine social issues with commercial genre film. The short films Rest in Peace and Killing Ada have been selected for or won awards at dozens of festivals in China and abroad, including Golden Rooster, Golden Horse, the Beijing International Film Festival, FIRST, Wave, IM and Xi'an Film Studio Spring Light. The feature project Closed Today for Personal Reasons received the Genre Recommended Project and Mahua FunAge Special Attention Project honors in the project market of the 2025 Shanghai International Film Festival.

About the Producer

Lin Xiao: Bachelor's degree in drama, film and television literature from Beijing Normal University. Worked in development on the theatrical films The Umbrella Girl and Nobody. Executive producer of the theatrical film Child of Time. Screenwriting credits: Aliya's Jilbala, selected for the Golden Goblet short film competition at the 2025 Shanghai International Film Festival; Rest in Peace, selected for the 60th Golden Horse Film Festival in 2023; Killing Ada, selected for the Her Frame section of the 2025 FIRST International Film Festival; and Daytime on the Shepherding Sea, selected for the project market of the New Blood Image Program at the 2023 Beijing International Film Festival.

About the Screenwriter

Lin Xiao: Bachelor's degree in drama, film and television literature from Beijing Normal University. Worked in development on the theatrical films The Umbrella Girl and Nobody. Executive producer of the theatrical film Child of Time. Screenwriting credits: Aliya's Jilbala, selected for the Golden Goblet short film competition at the 2025 Shanghai International Film Festival; Rest in Peace, selected for the 60th Golden Horse Film Festival in 2023; Killing Ada, selected for the Her Frame section of the 2025 FIRST International Film Festival; and Daytime on the Shepherding Sea, selected for the project market of the New Blood Image Program at the 2023 Beijing International Film Festival. Wang Hanmo: Young screenwriter with a bachelor's degree from the Department of Literature at the Beijing Film Academy; preliminary-round reviewer for the 7th and 8th Xi'an Film Studio Spring Light Youth Film Festival; self-media film critic. Wrote and directed two short films, Tailing and Shooting; wrote the feature screenplays Prophecy, Virtual Life and Killing Ada, of which Prophecy was selected for the feature screenplay section of the Golden Script Award. As a member of the project team, worked on the production of the theatrical films The Umbrella Girl and Child of Time.