Airplane
Geng Jun
Release year: 2012
Run time: 24 mins
Film type: Fiction
Synopsis
A lonely wandering poet came to a place where grapes are planted. No one bought his collection of poems here, but he met a girl. A pair of ill-matched couples passed by the place where grapes are planted. The man met the gambler and lost, while on the way the woman met the poet. The gambler left the place where grapes are planted. On the way, he met an opponent that caught him off guard. Amidst uncontrollable pleasure, he lost his dignity...
Director biography
Born in Heilongjiang Province in 1976, Geng Jun has directed and written many films. These include: Hawthorn (2002); Diary in Bulk (2003); Barbecue (2004 Festival of Three Continents, 2005 International Film Festival Rotterdam); Youth (2009 Rome International Film Festival); and The Hammer And Sickle Are Sleeping (2013 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Best Short Film winner). He also directed Poetry And Disease (2011). In 2017 his film Free and Easy was screened at Sundance, where it won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematic Vision.