“Impressively understated and humanistic. This is ultimately about longing, loneliness, grief and finding a place in a challenging environment.”
– Pete Hammond, Deadline

Country: United States
Language: Mandarin, English, Min Nan

About the film:

World Premiere – Cannes Film Festival. Within the confines of a massage parlor in Flushing, Queens, Amy (Ke-Xi Wu, Nina Wu) and Didi (Haipeng Xu, Where Echoes Never End) navigate romance, happiness, and the obligations of family thousands of miles from home. Despite the physical and emotional toll their work demands, the women have fortified an impenetrable sisterhood, which tragically collapses when disaster strikes on Lunar New Year.

About the filmmaker:

Constance Tsang is a Chinese American filmmaker based in New York. She graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in Screenwriting and Directing where she received the Robert Gore Rifkind Launch Fund. Her work is supported by Starlight Stars Collective and Tribeca Film. Blue Sun Palace will be her first feature.

MAJOR SUPPORT
Ohio Arts Council
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Columbus Foundation
Campus Partners
National Endowment for the Arts

WITH HELP FROM
G&J Pepsi
WOSU Public Media