28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

24. 10.–2. 11. 2025
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Us and the Night

Audrey Lam / Australia / 2024 / European Premiere / 67 min.


synopsis

This playful poetic documentary finds its whole world in the library. In libraries, that is, because they are all connected in an imaginary universe made up of aisles, book spines, letters, words and stories. Night after night, two female travellers venture into it; sometimes their steps cross and they remain in brief conversation, sometimes they wander along their own routes of their thoughts and imaginations. Because in books you can find literally everything beyond the walls of the library. And all it takes is a slight change of letters, a red becomes read, an isle becomes aisle, and the whole cosmos is spun on its axis by the single powerful force of creativity and imagination.

“I’m interested in the feeling and movement of everyday life and ordinary places. I start my films intuitively around that—the structure often comes from circumstances around making the film.”

Source quote: Innersense

biography

Audrey Lam (1981) was born in Hong Kong and now lives and works in Australia. She is a filmmaker working in fiction and documentary. Her films have been screened at festivals in Rotterdam, London, Nyon and Oberhausen. She is a graduate of the Locarno Filmmakers Academy and the Asialink Arts program.

more about film

director: Audrey Lam
cast: Umi Ishihara, Xiao Deng
producer: Audrey Lam
script: Audrey Lam
photography: Audrey Lam
editing: Audrey Lam

contact

Audrey Lam audreyylam@gmail.com

Screening time

Monday 28. 10. 2024, 20:00

DIOD

Tuesday 29. 10. 2024, 10:00

Kino Dukla – Edison

Film at festival

premiere type:European Premiere
festival edition:2024
section:First Lights
language:English
subtitles:English
colour:Colour

Info

director:Audrey Lam
original title:Us and the Night
country:Australia
year:2024
running time:67 min.

Festival partners

Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms

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