International Premiere
Big Little Things
Huangyan Shenghuo
109 minutes | 2026 | Hong Kong, United States | Drama | Chinese
SYNOPSIS
A seemingly perfect middle-class Chinese family faces an unprecedented situation when their daughter Lei brings a man home on New Year’s Eve to pretend to be her boyfriend. Her same-sex girlfriend’s unexpected visit intertwined her with a real intimacy crisis.
SCHEDULE
Mon, 30 Nov 2026 | 20:20 | EMPIRE XXI | STUDIO 3
CREDIT
| Production Company | Snow Island Pictures Limited &Three Dots Films |
| Producer | Chun YU, co-producer Junjie ZHAI, Clarissa ZHANG |
| Director | Michelle ZHOU |
| Scriptwriter | Michelle ZHOU |
| Cinematographer | Hark XU |
| Production Designer | Yuxuan ZHANG |
| Editor | Xinzhu LIU |
| Main Cast | Cuishan LIANG as Xiao Lei, Jialing SUN as Li Bei, Bin YU as Chen Yao, Ling HU as Mother Chunli Wu, Hai YU as Father Lao Xiao |
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| Contact | michellezt321@gmail.com |
DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY
Michelle ZHOU
Michelle Zhou is a Los Angeles-based writer and director. Her work explores intimate relationships and shifting power dynamics. She wrote HBO Asia’s Her Own Choice, and her screenplay Under the Snow was a 2020 Sundance Screenwriters Lab semi-finalist. Her debut feature Big Little Things was selected for the 83rd Venice IFF Orizzonti section and the 31st BIFF Window on Asian Cinema in 2026. It is now beginning its international festival run.
