To kick off this 36th edition of the festival, which runs from 8 to 13 July, we invite you to join us on Tuesday 8 July at 9pm, in the exceptional setting of the Théâtre Silvain! Preview screening of Kontinental ‘25 in the presence of Radu Jude and Eszter Tompa. Free admission.

For its 36th edition, FIDMarseille remains true to its mission: to spotlight independent cinema that is attentive to the echoes of the contemporary world and to the stories that reveal its fractures, both intimate and collective.

yi ding shi yin wei wo yao li kai, It Must Be Because I Decided to Leave

Zhuoyun Chen

United States, China, 2025, Color, 19’

World Premiere

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Programmes

Flash Competition ; Youth pathway from age 14
Dates

10.07 ; 11.07 ; 12.07
Languages

Mandarin Chinese ; English
Director

Zhuoyun Chen

A dreamlike, fantastical drift around a fractured identity, with dazzling visual inventions. Like a diary that visually conveys a state of being between two worlds.

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Subtitles:

French, English
Script:

Zhuoyun Chen
Photography:

Luca Cioci
Editing:

Zhuoyun Chen
Music:

Keju Luo
Sound:

Zhuoyun Chen
Cast:

Yiqian Peng, Yuwei Tu, Jia Peng, Dian Qi, Zhuoyun Chen
Production:

Zhuoyun Chen (Reverie Burns)
Contact:

Zhuoyun Chen

Filmography

Zhuoyun Chen
- What’s Ours and What We Are, 2016, 2'
- UUFO, 2018, 20'
- Only If You Could See a View Above the Clouds, 2022, 4'

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Filmography

Zhuoyun Chen

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