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On Memories of Countless Days Away 《山林記憶》

Directed by

Liao Jiekai, Elysa Wendi

Year

Runtime

2026

102 min

Genre

Documentary, Audiovisual Essay, Dance

Language

English, Mandarin, Japanese

Synopsis

Two longtime friends revisit their formative years as artists and their coming of age in Singapore. Piecing together footage accumulated over the years and reconstructing a dance for which no archive remains, they sit with failure, doubt and the creative possibilities that persist. Their thoughts turn towards the fraught question of where they belong: one traces a journey to his ancestral grave, the other reckons with the quiet erasure of her father’s citizenship.

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Producer(s)

Elysa Wendi, Liao Jiekai, Akiho Furuichi

Produced by

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International Sales/Distribution

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Cast

Gigi Yang

Tags

Dance, documentary, Memory, archive, coming of age, failure, creativity, ancestral, erasure, citizenship

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