《Langhuaer》Premiere: Follow several young people through the seven years after leaving school

The documentary film "Lang Hua Er" held its Beijing road show and premiere on September 12 and was released nationwide on the same day.Director Qi Yanyan started filming in 2019, and the camera follows several young people as they leave campus and enter society.Looking for a job, starting a business partnership, dealing with relationships, and reaffirming direction, these seemingly ordinary experiences have undergone real and subtle changes over the years of filming.

Fan Yaqin and her friends set up a photography studio, hoping to get a more stable life with their favorite job; Wang Jiong participated in the cross talk show and was also looking for his own position between career and relationship.The camera enters rental houses, studios and homes without drawing conclusions for them.The excitement when I just left school, the anxiety when facing bills and opportunities, and the silence when getting along with my family, are all slowly left behind by time.

The subject first met the director during a field trip to Yunnan.Later, when they are looking for jobs and entering society, they will still share their lives online.Qi Yanyan found that people during this period are often very complicated: they want to prove themselves as soon as possible, but they also doubt their choices after hitting a wall; they are willing to pay for what they like, but they are also pushed by reality to adjust their direction.The movie puts this kind of swing in the daily life of the characters without reducing them to a certain label.

《Langhuaer》It took four years to shoot, leaving nearly 800 hours of material. It then went through two years of editing, and it took seven years to complete the release version.The precious thing about long-term follow-up photography is that the characters never stop looking the way they were at the beginning.After leaving the familiar environment, Fan Yaqin gradually learned to complete her work independently, continued to engage in photography, and kept in touch with her old partners; Wang Jiong's liveliness when facing the camera, and the more private hesitations in life, also revealed different levels over time.

Sometimes documentary shooting is like companionship, and sometimes it also means waiting.The director cannot pre-arrange when a person's life will turn. He can only judge when to approach and when to retreat over a long period of time.A large amount of material will not eventually make it into the finished film, and the remaining fragments must be able to support each other and allow the characters to have complete breathing on the screen.Looking back seven years later, those choices themselves have become part of the story.

The film had previously won the Fei Mu Honor and Jury Honor at the 9th Pingyao International Film Festival.At the road show, the characters in the film and the audience sat in the same space, and the moments recorded in the past had new responses.Some people recall from Wang Jiong's experience the days when he first arrived in the city and could not make ends meet, and some may see in Fan Yaqin's choice his hesitation after leaving his hometown.The resonance provided by documentaries often occurs in such specific comparisons.

The name "Langhuaer" carries a sense of forward movement, but the people in the film are not required to keep their spirits up.They will get tired, take detours, and revise their goals as life changes.The film is willing to keep these ups and downs intact, letting the audience know that young people's lives are difficult to sum up with a label.Seven years later, the characters are still living, and the choices they once seriously faced will continue to echo off the screen.