The Foolish Bird
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Lynn lives with her grandparents in Meicheng, a small Hunanese city unsettled by an ongoing rape-murder investigation. With little structure to regulate her life outside of school, where she is bullied, Lynn begins smuggling and reselling confiscated mobile phones with her friend, which leads to encounters with the city’s seedier inhabitants.
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Cast
22 people
Yao Honggui
Lynn Lin
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Liqiao Xiao
Dawei
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Ruby Chen
Lim Giong
Fang Yao
May
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Liao Ching-Song
Xiao Liqiao
Ryuji Otsuka
Ziloong He
Huang Ji
Hsu Hsiao-ming
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Huang Zifan
Lynn's Grandfather
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Ryuji Otsuka Director · Huang Ji Director Lim Giong Composer
United States release November 15, 2017 · Produced in China · Production Coolie Films Corporation
Production
Yellow-Green Pi
Production
Coolie Films Corporation
Production
China
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Languages
Original title
笨鳥
Original language
Chinese
Spoken on screen
Chinese
Release dates
Germany · February 12, 2017
Premiere
United States · November 15, 2017
San Diego Asian Film Festival
China
July 24, 2017 · FIRST International Film Festival Xining
Kazakhstan
July 23, 2017 · Eurasia International Film Festival
Sweden
January 26, 2018 · Göteborg Film Festival
Taiwan
June 30, 2017 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
September 30, 2017 · Raindance Film Festival
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