Fireworks

There are two important timings in this film, the summer of 2006 and the early fall of 2018.
The funeral of Leng Yinuo brought five people together after 12 years separation. 12 years ago, these five-young people used to be interdependent but had to be apart in the summer after their high school graduation. That was a summer full of their beautiful memories without the hurts and desperation from the realities.
After 12 years, when they get together and found everyone is far away from the dreams they set years ago. The suffering of dying dream, sickness, doomed marriage and a lonely man carrying the families’ debt and a young son.
The structure of the film is parallel and cross narration. It feels like when someone is talking about the old day memories, time line would be massive and puzzled. Every point they we try to bring back to 12 years ago, the reality pulls us back and meanwhile when we live in nowadays, the memories remind us to miss the happy days.
The main point of the story is to describe how these five old day friends tried to reconcile with each other, and also with themselves and the reality. Be yourself is what the director tried to say.
When the death come to their lives, the left four was forced to face the things happened between them during the 12 past years. When they put down all the things and look back to how happy they were, finally they decided to think about the dreams they used to have and move on to another destiny.
This is not only a youth movie or a love story. It could be a short glance of anybody’s life. Things happened and story goes on.

  • CHENG ZHONGHAO
    Producer
  • MA DING
    Director
  • WANG KAI
    CO-DIRECTOR
  • WANG KAI
    DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPH
  • LEI CHENYU
    Executive Producer
  • MA DING
    Writer
  • GU XIN
    Writer
  • YAO XINGTONG
    Key Cast
    "HAO REN"
  • XIE BINBIN
    Key Cast
    "YANG FAN"
  • CUI BAOYUE
    Key Cast
    "LI MOMO"
  • YAN JIAYING
    Key Cast
    "LENG YINUO"
  • LI GUANMING
    Key Cast
    "HONG YANG"
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 48 minutes 59 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 15, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    1,200,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    China
  • Country of Filming:
    China
  • Language:
    Chinese
  • Shooting Format:
    DIGITAL , ARRI ALEXA MINI
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.35:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Distribution Information
  • ZHONG HE QIAN CHENG MEDIA CO., LTD
    Country: China
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - MA DING

As a 32 years old female director, I was graduated from Shanghai Theater Academy with the Master Degree in Human Performance. It has been five years since I started to work as an actress on theater, television and film. The movie Fireworks is my debut as a screenwriter and a director, which I completed the story in 2018, and put it on screen in August, 2019.
The youth could be splendid and also written in water as the fireworks, this is what I wanted to say in this movie. There is nothing worth to be reluctant to leave in the past, and the only way to move on is to discharge yourself. I hope that one day I could become a female director as Kore-eda Hirokazu, which is my favorite female director. In this way, I might be able to present the diversity of this world with my own unique perspective and draw the world in my own eyes out with the language of movies.

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Director Statement

There are two important timings in this film, the summer of 2006 and the early fall of 2018.
The funeral of Leng Yinuo brought five people together after 12 years separation. 12 years ago, these five-young people used to be interdependent but had to be apart in the summer after their high school graduation. That was a summer full of their beautiful memories without the hurts and desperation from the realities.
After 12 years, when they get together and found everyone is far away from the dreams they set years ago. The suffering of dying dream, sickness, doomed marriage and a lonely man carrying the families’ debt and a young son.
The structure of the film is parallel and cross narration. It feels like when someone is talking about the old day memories, time line would be massive and puzzled. Every point they we try to bring back to 12 years ago, the reality pulls us back and meanwhile when we live in nowadays, the memories remind us to miss the happy days.
The main point of the story is to describe how these five old day friends tried to reconcile with each other, and also with themselves and the reality. Be yourself is what the director tried to say.
When the death come to their lives, the left four was forced to face the things happened between them during the 12 past years. When they put down all the things and look back to how happy they were, finally they decided to think about the dreams they used to have and move on to another destiny.
This is not only a youth movie or a love story. It could be a short glance of anybody’s life. Things happened and story goes on.