A Dog Barking at the Moon (2019)

Original title

再见 南屏晚钟

Directed by

Xiang Zi

Genre

drama film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

People's Republic of China

Runtime

1h 47m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A mother discovers her husband has been hiding his sexuality. The film follows the family as they deal with the fallout of this secret.

domestictensemelancholicslow-burnemotionalpersonalquietrestrainedintimate

What happens

A Dog Barking at the Moon (Chinese: 再见，南屏晚钟) is a Chinese drama film, directed by Xiang Zi and released in 2019. A family drama, the film centres on the fallout of Juimei's (Naren Hua) discovery that her husband Huang Tao (Wu Renyuan) is secretly gay. The cast also includes Nan Ji as their daughter Xiaoyu, and Thomas Fiquet as Xiaoyu's foreign-born husband Benjamin. The film premiered in the Panorama program at the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize from the Teddy Awards program for LGBTQ-themed films at the festival. At the 2019 Inside Out Film and Video Festival, it won the award for Best First Feature Film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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