Yang Mingming

Those Who Loved Me

During the pandemic, someone shot a short film on a mobile phone—— it’s a love story about an airline stewardess who wanted to fall in love during the dynamic zero-COVID policy in Beijing, so she set out to reconnect with her ex-boyfriends.

Girls Always Happy

Wu is in her mid-twenties and lives with her mother in a traditional one-story house in one of Beijing’s hutongs. Both consider themselves to be writers, but success has so far eluded them. The fact that Wu is supported by a divorced, elderly man helps the women through lean periods. Their unhealthily close relationship is characterized by reproaches and quibbling; only during meals do they appear to lay down their verbal weapons. The situation escalates when both Wu and her mother hit an emotional low.

Female Directors

Two brilliant young women, art school graduates with deliciously profane vocabularies and supreme confidence, talk sex, cinema, and power, as they wield their shared video camera like a scalpel.