
Stranger
局外人
2024 | Narrative | 113 min | Color | Mandarin, Cantonese, English | USA, China, Netherlands, Norway, France
writer & director: ZHENGFAN YANG | producer: SHENGZE ZHU | co-producers: FRANK HOEVE, HILDE BERG, FRANÇOIS D’ARTEMARE | featuring: JIN JING, YUAN LIGUO, XUE BAOHE | director of photography: ZHENGFAN YANG | image advisor: SABINE LANCELIN | cinematographer: XIN HONGKE | assistant director: GU XUE | set design: CHEN NUANQI | location sound: DU CHUNFENG | re-recording mixer: JOS VAN GALEN
SYNOPSIS
The hotel room as a place where everyone is a stranger. A place that is yours for just a moment. A temporarily intimate space entered by a maid in order to clean it while, if possible, not leaving a trace of her visit. Each episode of Stranger is set in such a place, and each is captured in one long take. Weaving together a series of episodic stories – some humorous and absurd, some poignant and mysterious – that all unfold within a seemingly confined space, Stranger explores the idea of home while being away from it, and sheds light on the distinctive yet universal experiences of isolation and loneliness.



Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Czech, 2024) - Grand Prize of the Proxima Competition
São Paulo International Film Festival (Brazil, 2024)
El Gouna Film Festival (Egypt, 2024)
San Diego Asian Film Festival (USA, 2024)
Films from the South (Norway, 2024)
Sinema Transtopia (Germany, 2025)
Istanbul Film Festival (Turkey, 2025, upcoming)
New Directors/New Films (USA, 2025, upcoming)