All, or Nothing at All (Version A)(HKAFF2024)

Shanghai’s Global Harbor shopping mall serves as the setting for two stories about the same group of people with alternative identities. In this expansive temple of consumerism, a filmmaker looking for inspiration becomes enamoured with a cosmetics salesperson, while an architecture graduate pondering her future becomes enamoured with a breakdancer. The camera documents the internal turmoil of the disaffected protagonists amidst the mesmerizingly mundane comings and goings of the mall. Zhang Jiajun’s experimental debut feature reveals a cross-section of Gen Z malaise, yearning, and urban alienation in contemporary Chinese society. Both versions of the film, which invert the order of the two halves, will be presented.

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
New Directors/New Films