Lili Alone

Name: Lili Alone | Short Films – Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2026 Screening in Autumn - SSFF & ASIA 2026 Autumn
Director: ZOU Jing

Special Screening

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ZOU Jing (Director of A Girl Unknown, 2026 TIFF Premiering Feature)

Lili, a young mother, lives with her gambler husband in a remote part of Sichuan. Lonely and poor, she heads for the city in abid to earn enough money to save her dying father.

Director: ZOU Jing
Time: 0:22:00
Country: China, Hong Kong, Singapore
Genre: Drama
Year: 2021
Cast: HU Ling, Yu Shixue, ZHONG Ling, CHEN Zhihang, ZHANG Ziquan

Awards Nominations

Critics' Week, France (7–15 July, 2021)
Official Selection Won: Leitz Cine Discovery Award for Best Short Film
Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia (August 5 – 22, 2021)
Short Film Competition Won: MIFF Award for Best Fiction Short Film
Concorto Film Festival, Italy (August 21 – 28, 2021)
International Competition
Batumi International Art House Film Festival, Georgia (September 13 – 19, 2021)
Short Film Competition Special Mention
Olhar de Cinema – Curitiba International Film Festival, Brazil (6 – 14 October, 2021)
Other Views
BFI London Film Festival, United Kingdom (6 – 17 October, 2021)
Official Selection
El Gouna Film Festival, Egypt (October 14 – 22, 2021) Short Film Competition
Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain (23 – 30 October, 2021) International Competition
Uppsala Short Film Festival, Sweden (25 – 31 October, 2021)
International Competition
Leeds International Film Festival, United Kingdom (3 – 18 November, 2021)
Louis Le Prince International Short Film Competition Special Mention
Medina del Campo Film Festival, Spain (11 – 19 March, 2022) International Competition Won: Second Prize
New Directors/New Films, United States (April 20 – May 1, 2022)
Vienna Short International Short Film Festival, Austria (25 – 30 May, 2022) Fiction & Documentary Competition Won: Elfi Dassanowsky Prize For The Best Female Director Of The Festival

Director

ZOU Jing

ZOU Jing, born in 1984, she is a Chinese director and writer based out of Shanghai and Los Angeles. Jing came from literature background but she found her calling when she began working at Shanghai International TV station as a director/editor on documen- taries.
As a fanatic lover of literature and philoso- phy, Jing has always loved writing. Lili Alone is her first short film. Her ultimate goal is to write and direct feature films that explore the truths in modern China life.