Your City – Films – Visions du Réel

你的城市 (Ni de cheng shi)

Ting Su
Vereinigte Staaten, China, Frankreich | 2026 | 14 min
Weltpremiere
Sprache : Mandarin
Untertitel : Englisch, Französisch

Shenzhen, New York. Der sechzehnte Taifun des Jahres nähert sich der chinesischen Küste. In der schwülen Nacht rufen zwei queere Stimmen aus den beiden Städten einander Botschaften zu. Allmählich überlagern sich die auf Zelluloid gefilmten Metropolen und verschmelzen miteinander. Die beiden Stimmen sind nun besorgt wegen eines weiteren Taifuns, der sich auf sie zubewegt und noch bedrohlicher ist.

Shenzhen, New York. A weather report announces the approach of the 16th typhoon of the year towards the Chinese coast. In the sweltering night, two queer voices call out to one another from each of the cities. One has gone to visit her mother, who is hospitalised in China with respiratory problems. At the bedside, she experiences her own struggle in confiding her reality. On the other end of the phone, another typhoon is forming in New York, one that is even more threatening. The two cities, shot on film, begin to overlap and merge. Because of their dual status as queer and migrant, the two voices begin to fade. As a directive repeats “Stay Inside, Stay Alive,” a thermal camera captures bodies in motion in these two migrant-built metropolises, where environmental, emotional and political typhoons bring them together, crush them and then scatter them. A formally successful experiment, Your City is a genuine cry of protest against the erasure of our identities.

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