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What's In the Darkness
Official Selection - 2016 Berlin International Film Festival
Official Selection - 2016 New York Asian Film Festival
Official Selection - 2016 BFI London Film Festival

COLORADO PREMIERE

In this outstanding debut, a small town murder mystery provides the backdrop for one girl’s coming-of-age. Writer/director Wang Yichun takes us to a small rural village in early ‘90’s Hebei Province that has fallen prey to a serial killer. The murderer rapes his victims before killing them, carving a cross into the flesh of young women. Schoolgirl Jing (Su Xiaotong) develops a fascination with the killings that ebbs and flows with her budding sexual awareness. Compared to her classmates she is closer to the case as her father (Guo Xiao) is one of many police detectives working it.  Her physically more developed friend begins dating an older boy, subsequently getting expelled and then vanishing. As Jing develops her own perception of womanhood, she must navigate the repression and authoritarianism of both school and home as well as the deviance that lurks within the town at large. This is Thirteen by way of Memories of Murder with the dreamlike and ethereal qualities of Picnic at Hanging Rock thrown in to make a concoction not easily forgotten.

Director    Wang Yichun
Country    China
Year    2016
Runtime    105min
Starring    Su Xiaotong, Liu Dan, Lu Qiwei, Zhou Kui
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        • 2/21 - Best Tasting Wild Foods of Colorado​
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        • 2/22 - Mushroom Foraging 101
      • 2020 Asian American Documentaries >
        • Palliative
        • Love Boat: Taiwan
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        • The Rock Within
        • Ma
        • For Tashi
        • people (of water)
        • Not Pictured
        • I Put the Bi in Bitter
      • Ang Larawan (The Portrait)
      • Asian American Artist Showcase
    • 2019 Program >
      • 2019 Film Shorts >
        • Runner
        • Tears of the Sky
        • I Put the Bi in Bitter
        • My Escape
      • 2019 CU Denver Showcase >
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      • The Last Princess
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      • Millennium Actress
      • The Future Perfect
      • Youth of the Beast
      • Being Good
      • Heart Attack
      • Bloody Dairy
      • Bruce Takes Dragon Town
      • Cowboy and Indian
      • Dancing Through Life: The Dorothy Toy Story
      • Ho Chi Minh Kim Chi
      • Mango Sticky Rice
      • Night-Fly
      • Sumo Road - The Musical
      • Threads - The Art and Life of Surayia Rahman
      • Twenty Years
    • 2016 Program >
      • Wolf Children
      • Uzumasa Limelight
      • Changing Season
      • Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
      • Awesome Asian Bad Guys
      • Off the Menu: Asian America
      • Winning Girl