A DANCE IN VAIN
ТАНЕЦ ВПУСТУЮ / WO SHI QUAN SHI JIE ZUI XING FU DE BAO BEI
director
LEE HONG-CHI 
CHINA, 2025
86'
86'
Monkey has long worked behind the scenes in a theater, barely getting by
In 2020, her boyfriend Leo died by suicide. His absence haunts her days, yet when she voices her exhaustion, friends only say: "You should be grateful – you're already lucky."
| script | lee hong-chi |
|---|---|
| camera | lee hong-chi |
| design | lin zhiyun, hou zongjian |
| music | bruce su |
| producer | qi ai, justine o. |
| cast | cici wang |
| production | southie films limited |
| world sales | parallax films festival@parallaxchina.com |
Others
director:
LEE HONG-CHI
Lee Hong-Chi is a director and actor from China. He won the Best New Performer Award at the 52nd Golden Horse Awards and the Best Leading Actor Award at the 17th Taipei Film Festival for his role in "Thanatos, Drunk". In recent years, he has starred in over 10 acclaimed arthouse and commercial films. "Love is a Gun" (2023), his feature directorial debut which he also wrote and starred in, won the Lion of the Future Award at the Venice IFF. His second feature film, "A Dance in Vain", received its world premiere in the International Film Critics' Week section of the Venice IFF.
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