Angels Wear White

Vivian Qu, who produced Diao Yinan's Black Coal, Thin Ice, the Golden Bear winner in Berlin in 2014, is back behind the camera. In her second film, she tells the story of underage girls who are sexually assaulted. Mia, a teenager who works as a hotel maid, replaces the receptionist for a night shift. A middle-aged man with two 12-year-old girls checks in. Sometime later, Mia sees the man breaking into the girls' room. She records the entire event on her phone, but she's afraid that if she tells anyone what happened, she'll lose her job and end up in an even worse situation. Using very simple means, the director creates a portrait of modern China that focuses primarily on women. The difficult of life leaves its mark on every generation. Rather than sympathizing with her characters, Qu takes the position of an impartial observer so as to accurately portray the complexity of the emotions that accompany life's most difficult moments.