Long Day
Taking the suburbs of a northern city (Beijing) in winter as the background, it tells the sad story of a few small characters in a single day in a non-linear way.
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Yumo,LuoDirector
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Yumo,LuoWriter
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Jingzhi,FanProducer
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Feiyang LANKey Cast"LAN Xu"
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Xueqing CAIKey Cast"Cahier"
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Feng JIANGKey Cast"Dilivery Guy"
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Yiwei HUANGKey Cast"WANG Haiyang(plicemen)"
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Qiuying LIKey Cast"LI Can"
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Yumo LuoCinematographerLONG DAY
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Project Type:Feature
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Runtime:1 hour 26 minutes 4 seconds
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Completion Date:August 22, 2020
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Production Budget:36,000 USD
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Country of Origin:China
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Country of Filming:China
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Language:Chinese, English
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Shooting Format:3.2K,Prores 4444XQ ,Alex mini
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Aspect Ratio:1.33:1
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Film Color:Black & White
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
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11th ASTI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALAsti
Italy
December 23, 2021
Asti Premiere
Miglior Film -
11th FICBC - Balneário Camboriú International Film FestivalSão Paulo
Brazil
December 3, 2021
Brazil Premiere
Official Selection -
FLIGHT/ Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di GenovaGenova
Italy
November 2, 2021
Genova Premiere
THE BEST FEATURE FILM FICTION -
67th Taormina Film FestTaormina
Italy
July 3, 2021
Europe Premiere
OFFCIAL SELECTION -
Festival international de Cine AustralCordoba
Argentina
December 1, 2020
South American Premiere
BEST FEATURE FILM -
Festival international de Cine AustralCordoba
Argentina
December 1, 2020
South American Premiere
BEST DIRECTION -
15th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film FestivalJogja
Indonesia
November 25, 2020
Indonesia
Official Selection of NETPAC -
Near Nazareth Festival ( NNF)Nazareth
Israel
Official Selection -
The Buddha International Film FestivalPuna
India
Non-Screening but in Competitive Section
BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD -
18th PACIFIC MERIDIAN International Film Festival of Asian-Pacific countries in VladivostokVladivostok
Russian Federation
October 11, 2020
THE BEST FEATURE FILM -
10th Sakhalin International Film FestivalYuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Russian Federation
August 22, 2020
World Premiere
Official Selection
Yumo LUO,the original name Tengcheng LUO.was born in 1986. He studied at the Beijing Film Academy, majoring in film and television directors, and now lives in Beijing. Writers and film workers. Wrote scripts, film reviews, novels, poems, and authored the short story "There will be rainbow", the script "MY BURNING LUST NIGHT" and "LOST TREASURE". In 2020, the self-directed and self-directed feature film "Long Day" was shortlisted for several international film festivals including Taormina,Sakhalin, Vladivostok, Buddha of India, Yogyakarta etc. And won “THE BEST FEATURE FILM” at 18th International Film Festival of Asian-Pacific countries PACIFIC MERIDIAN in Vladivostok.
“Long day” is my first film. Its origins are traced back to 2003. In the summer of that year, I saw a news that a mother who had a drug addiction for theft was arrested while she was stealing. The three-year-old girl starved to death.This news event has given me a deep memory. This story is the prototype of the mother and daughter in the film. I have changed this story. Many years later, I met a lot of things, these things haunted me in my memory, and they all became the intertwined characters and stories in this movie. These things that have happened exist as memories of the past. They make the color of this film black and white. I think that only the black and white can express my views on these things.
In the film, I didn't use the closely related drama structure to make it interlock. In the original script, I let the characters in all the stories conflict and have deep connections, but in the actual shooting process, I broke up the structure. Make it more like a prose or essay, or have a pseudo-record feeling. However, there is only one point in the spiritual core of the film, which is the common mental state of these characters: Where do we go in the numb life?
In terms of photography, all of the fixed lenses are used, and the moving lens has only a "shake" lens. The reason for this choice, in my opinion, art has three particularly important core elements, that is, "unique", "pure" and "unification". It is not unique enough, but it has achieved "pure" and "unification." As the first handheld camera, I am very satisfied.