Award of Merit – “I Can Only Talk To You When I Stand in Shadows” (USA)

Title: I Can Only Talk To You When I Stand in Shadows
Runtime: 6 min
Country: USA 
Director: Yuchi Ma
Placement: Award of Merit
Competition: June, 2018

Synopsis: A girl in her late teens contemplates the conflict between family identity and self, in face of the cruelty of times. This is a brief moment of my coming of age.