‘Jet Lag’ directed by Zheng Lu Xinyuan at East Asia Film Festival Ireland, screening at IFI with introduction by aemi

The 6th East Asia Festival Ireland Ireland presents Chinese director Zheng Lu Xinyuan’s highly anticipated new feature film Jet Lag at IFI, with in-person introduction by aemi

Previous recent works by Zheng Lu Xinyuan include The Cloud in her Room, which won the Tiger Award at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020

More info about Jet Lag:
Chinese director Zheng Lu Xinyuan experiments with fragmented form and narrative. Shot in the midst of lockdown she combines family stories with moments of travel and displacement across continents in this personal cinematic essay shot on video in black and white. Her unique eye captures strong poetic and texturally rich images and isolated fragments of time, slowly inducing a palpable sensation of being displaced and in a state of flux. Forum Section, Berlin International Film Festival 2022
– Notes by Marie-Pierre Richard, EAFFI

“Spring 2018, Grandma and our family were invited to Mandalay to attend a distant relative’s wedding. In between the banquet and sightseeing, Grandma was eager to find out more about her missing father, who left China when she was five, becoming a Monk in later life. After multiple flight cancellations, my girlfriend Zoe and I made our way back home. We visited Grandma together. I came to realise that Grandma, Zoe and I were all experiencing an absence of fatherhood for different reasons. In February 2021, a military coup took place in Myanmar. All of a sudden, Myanmar again became a place that is so close and at the same time so far away.” – Zheng Lu Xinyuan

Biography, Zheng Lu Xinyuan
Born in 1991 in China. She studied film production. Her feature film debut Ta fang jian li de yun / The Cloud in her Room won the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2020. Jet Lag is her second feature-length film.

Film info:
Zheng Lu Xinyuan, Jet Lag, 2022, 111 minutes, Switzerland-Austria, colour and black & white
Languages: Mandarin, Burmese, English, Subtitles: English
Screening at IFI 4pm Sunday 3 April, as part of the 6th East Asia Film Festival Ireland 31 March – 3 April 2022

To mark the screening of Jet Lag at EAFFI 2022, this cinema presentation at IFI will begin with an in-person introduction by aemi. Additionally, a pre-recorded Q&A between Jet Lag‘s director Zheng Lu Xinyuan and aemi co-directors Alice Butler & Daniel Fitzpatrick will be available online on EAFFI’s website from 31 March