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The Lucky One
Zimu Zhang
Release year: 2013
Run time: 13’48
Film type: Documentary
Synopsis
It all started from the moment I encountered a table gossip in an illegal Chinese
restaurant in Lisbon: A Chinese girl who came to study but fell into deep miseries. Out of
curiosity and empathy, I began to look for her. Instead of finding the truth, I was confronted
with more puzzles, choices and life’s poetry. It’s a film about journey, suspicion and battles
between poetry and misery.
Director biography
Zimu Zhang is an environmental humanities scholar working on visual culture, eco-cinema and ecofeminist arts. She is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong. She is also an alumna of DocNomads Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in documentary filmmaking (2012-2014) and Berlinale talents (2016).Her films have been featured in international film festivals, art and academic events, such as European Media Art Festival, Doclisboa, Yunfest, China Independent Film Festival, etc. She has curated screening programs for Singapore International film festival, Arkipel Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Inner Mongolian Film Week and Beijing International Short Film Festival, etc. Together with friends she co-founded Moonshine Screening Project (2017-2019, Guangzhou SJT co-governance space) and Black Tent Theater (2021-, Guangdong Times Museum), focusing on the ecology and sociality of moving image and moving image activities.
