Jin Jing

C’est un hiver humide à Hangzhou, Muzi rentre pour le nouvel an lunaire. L’ancien appartement de ses parents est toujours là. Un lit, une chaise abandonnée, une fenêtre abimée – les restes d’une relation qui a évolué. Son père a fondé une nouvelle famille, sa mère est en couple avec un étranger ; Muzi replonge dans ses souvenirs et tente de trouver des repères dans cette ville si familière et pourtant si changée. La jeune femme est tiraillée entre passé et présent, entre la fuite et l’éternel retour.

She plays an actress. He works as a filmmaker. We are making a film in Xining, Qinghai, China. She says that this is the furthest place that she's ever been from home. As days go by and under the pressure from the production, we start to wander on the border of life and fiction.

As a couple with an age difference, Tong and Fang try to navigate their uncertain love relationship on a surfing trip, during which they face an unforeseen loss in life.

The hotel room as a place where everyone is a stranger. A place that is yours for just a moment. A temporarily intimate space entered by a maid in order to clean it while, if possible, not leaving a trace of her visit. Each episode of Stranger is set in such a place, and each is captured in one long take. Weaving together a series of episodic stories – some humorous and absurd, some poignant and mysterious – that all unfold within a seemingly confined space, Stranger explores the idea of home while being away from it, and sheds light on the distinctive yet universal experiences of isolation and loneliness.