CIFF47: PSQ March 22 – April 1, 2023 | Streams April 2 – April 9, 2023

Fire on the Plain
(Ping Yuan Shang De Mo Xi)

Year: 2021
Country: CHINA
Language: Chinese
Run Time: 113 minutes

Fire on the Plain
Fire on the Plain

If you are looking for your next favorite film noir, look no further than FIRE ON THE PLAIN. The film starts on a cold winter’s night in China in 1997, where we meet Li Fei and Shu. Li Fei desperately wants to escape her town and takes lessons from her more fortunate neighbors to better her chances of doing so. Shu, the angsty teenager next door, holds a soft spot for Li Fei and the two build an unlikely bond. As a series of murders strike their city, Shu ends up being recruited by an undercover detective. Yet the murders mysteriously stop without the cops knowing who the perpetrator could be. Flash forward eight years later, when Shu and Li Fei have taken drastically different paths in life. Shu is now a young police officer who decides to reopen the investigation from his past, which will unexpectedly bring Li Fei back into his life. FIRE ON THE PLAIN combines romance, a whodunnit, social commentary, and a variety of twists and turns. What more could you want? —N.A.

CIFF46 Screenings

Westfield Studio Theatre

Saturday, April 02, 2022 at 7:25 PM

Sunday, April 03, 2022 at 9:25 AM

Accessibility (?)
Closed Captions: No
Audio Description: No
English Subtitles: Yes

Sidebars
Asian Cinema
Only at Playhouse Square

Competition
International Narrative Competition

Director

Director
Zhang Ji

Producer
Dun He

Screenwriting
Cao Liu

Cinematography
Chengma Zhiyuan

Editing
Matthieu Laclau

Principal Cast
Zhou Dongyu, Liu Haoran, Mei Ting, Wang Xuebing, Yuan Hong

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