WHEN WINTER COMES

International Short Film Contest 53 ED. 2025
United States 2024 20' Fiction

A mother from China searches for her missing daughter in New York. Called to identify a dead body, she insists that the victim is not her daughter. Against the winter cold, she begins to post missing person flyers on the streets, day after day.

Yuan Yuan

Chinese writer-director, she holds an MFA degree from NYU Tisch Grad Film Program. Her short films won Best Student Film at 25th DGA Student Film Award, Best Student Film at Palm Springs, Jury Prize at Hong Kong International Film Festival etc. Currently, she is developing her first feature project, Late Spring.

TECHNICAL DATA
DIRECTION:

Yuan Yuan

SCRIPT:

Yuan Yuan

PRODUCTION:

Independiente. Producción ejecutiva: Fan He, Candy Hu, Yuan Yuan

EDITING:

Ge Zhai

ART:

Emma Cantor

PHOTOGRAPHY:

Ming Jue Hu

ORIGINAL MUSIC:

Kaman Chang

SOUND:

Sung Rok Choi

CAST:

Eleven Lee, Ao Lan Guo, James Chen, Lawrence Billard, Raymond Zhou

CONTACT:

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