Elegy for the Lost
- Logline
- An essay film that adopts a lyrical and distinctly queering approach to sexual identity, social dynamics, and everyday life in contemporary China. Through the psychoanalytic and introspective voiceover of a young post-pandemic Chinese migrant in Europe, the film interweaves her private memories of intimacy with public narratives of resistance, confronting the personal cost of existing in the current age of turbulence and regression, in a world that demands their silence.
- Talent
- William Hong-xiao WEI
- Role of participant
- Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor, Sound Designer
- Director
- William Hong-xiao Wei
- Producer
- William Hong-xiao Wei; Bowen Guan
- Screenwriter
- William Hong-xiao Wei
- Status
- finished
- Year of production
- 2025
- Running time
- 29 min
- Genre
- Documentary (Hybrid)
- Countries of Production
- United Kingdom , Spain , France
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Contact
- Name
- William Hong-xiao WEI
- Company
- Aurora Arts Studio
Festivals and Awards
★ 56th Visions du Réel, International Film Festival Nyon (VdR–Film Market), Nyon, 04/2025
★ WORLD PREMIERE: 25th Un Festival C’est Trop Court (Experience Competition), Nice, 10/2025
★ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE: 66th Festival dei Popoli (Discoveries International Competition), Florence, 11/2025
★ 28th Montreal International Documentary Festival (International short and medium length competition), Montreal, 11/2025
★ 18th Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen (New Arrivals Competition), Nijmegen, 04/2026
★ 31st É Tudo Verdade - It's All True - International Documentary Film Festival (International Competition: Short Films), São Paulo & Rio de Janeiro, 04/2026
★ 10th Festival Internacional Signes da Noite (International Competition Cinema in Transgression, won: MENTION FOR THE SIGNS AWARD & STUDENT JURY: MAIN AWARD), Urbino, 04/2026
★ 11th International Queer & Migrant Film festival (Shorts: Waving on the Road), Amsterdam, 05/2026
★ 7th Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival (Haunted Yet Alive), Istanbul, 05/2026
★ 6th Queer East Festival (Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets!), London, 05/2026
★ 11th Internationales Festival Zeichen der Nacht (Cinema Transgression Competition), Berlin, 06/2026
★ WORLD PREMIERE: 25th Un Festival C’est Trop Court (Experience Competition), Nice, 10/2025
★ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE: 66th Festival dei Popoli (Discoveries International Competition), Florence, 11/2025
★ 28th Montreal International Documentary Festival (International short and medium length competition), Montreal, 11/2025
★ 18th Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen (New Arrivals Competition), Nijmegen, 04/2026
★ 31st É Tudo Verdade - It's All True - International Documentary Film Festival (International Competition: Short Films), São Paulo & Rio de Janeiro, 04/2026
★ 10th Festival Internacional Signes da Noite (International Competition Cinema in Transgression, won: MENTION FOR THE SIGNS AWARD & STUDENT JURY: MAIN AWARD), Urbino, 04/2026
★ 11th International Queer & Migrant Film festival (Shorts: Waving on the Road), Amsterdam, 05/2026
★ 7th Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival (Haunted Yet Alive), Istanbul, 05/2026
★ 6th Queer East Festival (Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets!), London, 05/2026
★ 11th Internationales Festival Zeichen der Nacht (Cinema Transgression Competition), Berlin, 06/2026