Mongolian Girl Confronts Her Father’s New Family | Heading South - Asian Coming-of-Age Short Film

In this award-winning coming-of-age short film, a Mongolian girl travels from the grasslands to the city to visit her father, only to discover he has started a new family without her. 🎬SYNOPSIS: Mongolian girl Chasuna travels from her home on grassland to visit her father who lives in the big city. However, during her father’s birthday party, she finds out he has remarried to a Chinese woman. Chasuna has to learn how to accept her as part of the family. 🔎ABOUT THE FILMMAKER: Yuan Yuan is a Chinese writer and director based in New York. She is currently a MFA student at New York University, where she is named as an Ang Lee Scholar and Spike Lee Film Production Fellow. After graduating from Shanghai Theatre Academy with a BA in directing, she began working in script development for Oscar-winning producer Bill Kong (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Lust, Caution). In 2017, Yuan entered grad school to follow her dream in storytelling. Yuan’s short films have screened at many festivals worldwide, and won awards at DGA Student Film Award, Aspen ShortsFest, Palm Springs, Rhode Island, Hamptons, Hong Kong International Film Festival, and Cannes Lions Young Director Award, etc. Currently, Yuan Yuan is developing her first feature. 🏆 FESTIVALS DGA Student Film Award Aspen ShortsFest Cannes Lions Young Director Award DC Shorts Film Festival FilmschoolFest Munich Hamptons IFF Hong Kong IFF Palm Springs ISFF Flickers Rhode Island IFF Chinese American FF North America Chinese Directors Short Film Tour AFI Fest Indy Shorts Film Festival Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur Nashville Film Festival OFF Odense International FF and many more... ///////////////////////// ▶️Subscribe for more shorts: https://goo.gl/39Zrzi ▶️Follow us on facebook:   / kiskiskeepitshort   ▶️Follow us on Instagram:   / kiskiskeepitshort   ▶️Follow us on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/KIS_KIS/ ///////////////////////// 📝CREDITS Original title - Heading South Director - Yuan Yuan Writer - Yuan Yuan Production - NYU - Tisch School of the Arts Producers - Yuan Yuan, Meng Fei, Mingjue Hu Cinematography - Joewi Verhoeven Editing - Yuan Yuan Sound Design - Kun Chen Soundtrack - Lu Wang Cast - Chasuna, Fala Chen (Ballad of a Small Player, Irma Veep, Shang-Chi), Tungalag, Tuoya, Zhiguang Zhou, Baya, Feng Feng Year - 2016 © Licensed by Shortcuts #kiskis #shortfilm #awardwinning #chinesemovie #dramashortfilm #mongolia #comingofage