Cinema Q: Ghosted

Germany, 2009, 89 Minute Running Time
Additional Countries: Taiwan
Genre/Subjects: Detective/Mystery, Foreign, Gay/Lesbian
Language: English, German, Mandarin English Sub-Titles

35mm presentation - Monika Treut (Female Misbehaviour, Gendernauts) returns to narrative filmmaking after a decade in documentary work with a mysterious love story about a Hamburg artist, Sophie, who is trying to come to terms with her Taiwanese lover Ai-Ling's murder. To ease her grief Sophie creates a video installation about Ai-Ling, and when she brings the exhibition to Taipei she meets the ambitious and seductive Mei-Li, a journalist who is investigating Ai-Ling's death. Unable to forget her dead lover and confused by Mei-Li's advances, she flees back to Hamburg. But when Mei-Li turns up on her doorstep, Sophie begins to suspect something strange is going on.

DIRECTOR: Monika Treut
US Distributor: First Run Features

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