AFTER THE SNOWMELT

After her best friend died in the wilderness, the young filmmaker returned to the accident scene to honor the promise they once made. World premiered in the Burning Lights competition at Visions du Reel.
一位青年創作者在面臨摯友離世後，獨自入山尋找倖存意義的成長故事。本片入選瑞士真實影展炫光競賽單元。

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, blurs the boundary between past and present, and finally converges at the same destination. When she reaches the CAVE, what awaits her there?
失聯兩個月後，年輕旅人宸君和聖岳在尼泊爾的山洞裡被尋獲。聖岳倖存，宸君卻在獲救前三天離世。本片導演為與兩人共同成長的摯友，在收到宸君遺願「活下來的人要說出這個故事」後，執意踏上了直面死亡與山之殘酷的旅程。在雪融的季節，有些事物重見天日，有些事物則隨之消逝。當他追索宸君腳步來到洞口，等待他的會是什麼？