AFTER THE SNOWMELT

FILM INFO

Title in Mandarin

雪水消融的季節

Year

2024

Film Status

Completed

Duration

111 min

THEME / GENRE

ADVENTURE / LGBTI

Director

LO Yi-shan

Producer

LO Yi-shan, CHEN Yung-shuang, CHO Tze-lan, FUJIOKA Asako, Angel Wen CHEN

Cast

LIU Chen-chun, LIANG Sheng-yueh, LO Yi-shan

Production Company

Hope Content Marketing, Documentary Dream Center (DD Center)

Festivals & Awards

2024 Visions du Réel – Burning Lights Competition, Switzerland
2024 Trento Film Festival – International Competition, Italy
2024 Jeonju International Film Festival – International Competition, South Korea
2024 Frameline San Francisco Int. LGBTQ+ Film Festival – Documentary Feature Competition, United States
2024 Taipei Film Festival – Taipei Film Awards Best Documentary (Nominated) / Press Award (Winner), Taiwan

Participation Goal

International Distribution
Festival Screening

After her best friend died in the wilderness, the young filmmaker returns to the accident scene to honor the promise they once made. World premiere: Visions du Reel – Burning Lights competition

After the Snowmelt is a coming-of-age tale where youth grapple with the first profound loss. Filmmaker Yi-Shan’s best friends in high school, Chun and Yueh, were trapped in a Nepal cave for 47 days due to unseasonal snowfall. Chun died three days before Yueh’s rescue, leaving behind the wish that whoever survives must share their story. To honor this wish, Yi-Shan takes up the camera, accompanies Yueh to the mountains, and retraces Chun’s footsteps in Nepal. Her journey gradually overlaps with Chun’s, blurring the boundary between past and present, and finally converges at the same destination. When she reaches the CAVE, what awaits her there?
The film had its world premiere at the Visions du Réel Burning Lights Competition, its Asian premiere at the JEONJU IFF International Competition, and its North American premiere at the Frameline San Francisco Int. LGBTQ+ Film Festival Documentary Feature Competition.

SALES CONTACT

Company

HOPE CONTENT MARKETING CO., LTD.

JOB TITLE

Sales (region: Taiwan, Hong Kong, China)

Contact

Ivy SHEN Yu-hua

Email

international@hope-marketingent.com

Tel

+886 8941 0166

Mobile

+886 915 638 238