After the Snowmelt

A delicate inquiry into grief and friendship, Lo Yi-Shan’s debut documentary grapples openly with the story of Chun and Yueh, two of the director’s friends, who were trapped in a Nepal cave for 47 days in 2017, where Chun passed away. Now, together with Lo, Yueh reflects on their friends’ disappearance and, more obliquely, on their queerness and marginalised relationship. This becomes a way to process through art: to grieve as a filmmaker and subject retrace steps with new and archival footage, poems, witness testimonies and confessions alike, culminating in a bold filmic diary of therapeutic intensity.

Visions du Réel: In Competition

Taipei Film Awards: Best Documentary nomination