The Quiet Shadow
Directed by Qiqi Hou
Summer 2025, Italy, Hou begins her diary. Combining her notes and elegant still shots, she documents the places, the strangeness, and all that distances her from her native China. Her mother’s voice, her orders, and even the ideograms evaporate: Cassine, cinema and English become refuges, new spaces for creation, memory and life.
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