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After the Snowmelt
Xue Shui Xiao Rong De Ji Jie
Director
Lo Yi-Shan
Producers
Lo Yi-Shan
Tze-Lan Cho
Yung-Shuang Chen
Cinematographers
Lo Yi-Shan
Wei-Long Tsai
Editor
Jessica Wan-Yu Lin
Sound
Yannick Dauby
Contact
Wouter Jansen
Square Eyes
[email protected]
2024
Taiwan, Japan
110 min
Color
It is a coming-of-age tale where youth grapple with their first profound loss. Filmmaker Yi-Shan’s best friends Chun and Yueh were trapped in a Nepal cave for 47 days. Chun died three days before Yueh's rescue, prompting Yi-Shan to take up the camera and retrace her friends’ footsteps in Nepal. When Yi-Shan reaches the cave, what awaits her there?
Yi-Shan LO is an independent filmmaker and writer. Since her teenage years, she has been fascinated by the intertwined relationships connecting humans and non-humans in Taiwanese subtropical mountains. Conveying the beauty and complexity of wilderness has motivated her to make films. After the Snowmelt is her debut documentary feature.
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