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The elusive joy of labor

L'insaisissable joie du travail

fiction 9', 2021

director/co-writer

A job seeker is going to the unemployment office to find a job. In the search for a job advisor, he comes across an absurd world of self-employment at a mysterious congress held there, where one has to invent a job to find a place in the society.

broadcast on Arte

screening at the Cinémathèque française

the French national museum of the history of immigration 

the French Institute of China

Selection International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima Krakow

GUFA Hong Kong

Nowness Short Film Awards Shanghai

HiShorts! Film Festival Xiamen

Festival Allers-Retours Cinéma d’auteur chinois Paris

Jury prize, Berlin NewGen Chinese Film Festival

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