20-year-old Lynn (Yao Hong gui) is told she needs English classes, flight attendant school and a go-getter attitude. She perseveres along this path of upward mobility until she finds out she’s pregnant. Indecisive and running out of time, she tells her boyfriend she’s had an abortion and returns to her feuding parents and their failing clinic to try and figure out what to do next.

Built from interviews with college women, observations of a post-Tik Tok China and their own lived experiences, husband-and-wife filmmaking team Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka take a look at the new norms of gig-economy, grey markets and hustling in modern-day metropolitan China through the experiences of one young woman.

Winner of Best Narrative Feature and Best Film Editing at the Golden Horse Film Festival, STONEWALLING is a “cool, quietly brilliant heartbreaker” capturing the “surreal comedy and engulfing horror of the money-driven world” (The New York Times, Critic's Pick).

“A moving, slow burn of a character study, as well as an examination of female stagnancy, personally and politically.” –RogerEbert.com

DIRECTED BY HUANG JI & RYUJI OTSUKA
CHINA | 2022 | MANDARIN & ENGLISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES