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Escape from the 21st Century

  • China | 2024 | Mandarin
  • Original Title: Cong 21 Shiji Anquan Cheli
  • Director: Li Yang
  • Screenplay: Yang Li
  • DoP: Saba Mazloum
  • Editor: Shang Huang
  • Cast: Ruoyun Zhang, Chuxi Zhong, Yang Song, Chenhao Li, Xiaoliang Wu, Yanmanzi Zhu, Zhengrong Wen
  • Premiere: India Premiere
  • Tags: Coming Of Age, Comedy, Hybrids

Festivals :

Toronto International Film Festival 2024


Synopsis :

After falling into an unknown chemical material, three teenagers discover that they can travel twenty years into the future by sneezing. There, they occupy their adult bodies and observe what has changed over two decades. What seems like a harmless way to pass the time turns out to have unforeseen consequences, which escalate the situation to apocalyptic proportions.


Directors Bio :

Yang Li was born in 1959 in Xian, China. He is a writer and producer, known for Blind Shaft (2003), Mang shan (2007) and The Taking of Tiger Mountain (2014).


Sales

Fortissimo Films