Private Project

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.

  • Yumo,Luo
    Director
  • Yumo,Luo
    Writer
  • Jingzhi,Fan
    Producer
  • Feiyang LAN
    Key Cast
    "LAN Xu"
  • Xueqing CAI
    Key Cast
    "Cahier"
  • Feng JIANG
    Key Cast
    "Dilivery Guy"
  • Yiwei HUANG
    Key Cast
    "WANG Haiyang(plicemen)"
  • Qiuying LI
    Key Cast
    "LI Can"
  • Yumo Luo
    Cinematographer
    LONG DAY
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 26 minutes 4 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 22, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    36,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    China
  • Country of Filming:
    China
  • Language:
    Chinese, English
  • Shooting Format:
    3.2K,Prores 4444XQ ,Alex mini
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1.33:1
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 11th ASTI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
    Asti
    Italy
    December 23, 2021
    Asti Premiere
    Miglior Film
  • 11th FICBC - Balneário Camboriú International Film Festival
    São Paulo
    Brazil
    December 3, 2021
    Brazil Premiere
    Official Selection
  • FLIGHT/ Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Genova
    Genova
    Italy
    November 2, 2021
    Genova Premiere
    THE BEST FEATURE FILM FICTION
  • 67th Taormina Film Fest
    Taormina
    Italy
    July 3, 2021
    Europe Premiere
    OFFCIAL SELECTION
  • Festival international de Cine Austral
    Cordoba
    Argentina
    December 1, 2020
    South American Premiere
    BEST FEATURE FILM
  • Festival international de Cine Austral
    Cordoba
    Argentina
    December 1, 2020
    South American Premiere
    BEST DIRECTION
  • 15th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival
    Jogja
    Indonesia
    November 25, 2020
    Indonesia
    Official Selection of NETPAC
  • Near Nazareth Festival ( NNF)
    Nazareth
    Israel
    Official Selection
  • The Buddha International Film Festival
    Puna
    India
    Non-Screening but in Competitive Section
    BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD
  • 18th PACIFIC MERIDIAN International Film Festival of Asian-Pacific countries in Vladivostok
    Vladivostok
    Russian Federation
    October 11, 2020
    THE BEST FEATURE FILM
  • 10th Sakhalin International Film Festival
    Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
    Russian Federation
    August 22, 2020
    World Premiere
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Yumo,Luo

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.

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Director Statement

“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.