Bitter Flowers

Genre: Drama

Language: Mandarin

Subtitles: French, English, Dutch

Format: HD

Sound: 5.1

Duration: 96′

Countries: Belgium, France, Switzerland

Year: 2017

SYNOPSIS

Lina, an ambitious young woman, leaves her husband and son in China to go to Paris to build a brighter future for them. But once in Europe nothing happens as planned and she locks herself into a world of lies so as not to give up on her dream.

CREDITS

Director : Olivier Meys

Script: Olivier Meys, Maarten Loix, Amei
Image: Benoît Dervaux

Artistic consultant: Liping Weng

Production designer: Adrien Souchet

Costumes: Anne-Catherine Kunz

Make-up: Marie Lastennet
Sound: Marc Thill
Editing: Erwin Ryckaert
Sound mix: François Musy

Cast: Qi Xi, Wang Xi, Geng Le, Zeng Meihuizi

Produced by Joseph Rouschop & Valérie Bournonville (Tarantula Belgique) and Gilles Padovani (Mille et Une Films – France)

Coproduced by Xavier Grin (PS.Productions – Switzerland), Zhang Miao (Beijing Culture – China), Zhang Yaxuan (Spring Film – China), Arielle Sleutel (Tondo – Belgium)

International sales : Loco Films

Distribution Benelux : Cinéart

Asia-Pacific sales : Beijing Culture

FESTIVALS

DIRECTOR

Graduate in Film and Radio production at the Institute of Broadcasting Arts (IAD – Belgium, 2000), Olivier Meys quickly left to work in China. He witnesses the important social changes experienced by this country in recent years and produces many award-winning radio documentaries (Radio Grand Prize SCAM 2007, Nagra Grand Prize of Creation at the Brest Longueur d’onde Festival 2010).

Olivier Meys has also directed short films and documentary films, including “Vies nouvelles”, First Film Prize at the Traces de Vies festival (2005) and “Qian men Qian”, International Prize of the SCAM “Cinéma du réel” 2008.

“Bitter Flowers” is his first feature film.

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