Short film
Can you hear me?
2025 · 11 min
A quiet, crushing watch that sits with a family's helpless grief and the cold barrier of language.
- Directed by
- Xinhui Wang
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Ping Liu, Andrew Wood, Tina Zhang
- Tagline
- how do we say goodbye?
- Overview
- A middle-aged Chinese couple, illegal immigrants in the U.S. who do not speak English, must find a way to communicate with Americans and handle their daughter’s body after discovering her dead at home.
- How it feels
- Bleak, melancholic, tense and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Grief, isolation, immigration, family
- Content
- Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Xinhui Wang
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Ping Liu, Andrew Wood, Tina Zhang
