coming soon 2025

blue in dawn

drama / arthouse
dir. zhou xing / toronto, on, canada / 30+ min.

writer / director - zhou xing
writer / executive producer - jiayi joye xu
producer - rose liu

director of photography - eric feng
1st assistant director - mohan li
editor - zhou xing
production designer - augustina shen
sound designer / music - tbd

synopsis: a theatre actress, lu yao, who is torn between life and the stage, gradually gets lost in the blurring of her identity and emotions. dreams, reality and theatre intertwine as she struggles with repressed rationality and irresistible primal desires, trying to find her own direction.

inspiration: the film was inspired by zhou xing and jiayi joye xu, fellow students who studied theatre together in university. the two often engage in profound discussions around the relationship between life, theatre and film. abandoning traditional narratives, they focus more on the excavation of human consciousness, exploring deep emotional and philosophical meanings in the conflict between acquired morality and primitive instincts.