The Wandering Trees

多年后的偶然重逢，让两位曾分开的女孩在剧院相对。旧日的记忆与未竟的承诺交织，当她们在现实挑战中寻找答案，舞台上的热带雨林与那两棵并肩而立的树悄然诉说着她们的故事——她们是否也能抵御风雨，彼此相依？

After watching a play about the wandering trees, a reunited broken up lesbian couple revisits their shared memories and explores their current attitude towards love in order to fix this destined to fail relationship.

导演：李佳楠
编剧：李佳楠
主演：童圣媛、王智允
制片人：谢帛庭、杨懿涵
摄影：王紫亨、邢群
类型：剧情短片
时长：24分钟
完成时间：2025年
对白语言：汉语普通话
地区：中国
制片公司：伦敦电影学院

Director: Jianan Li
Screenwriter: Jianan Li
Cast: Shengyuan Tong, Zhiyun Wang
Producer: Boting Xie, Yihan Yang
Cinematographer: Ziheng Wang, Qun Xing
Genre: Narrative Short Film
Length: 24 min
Year: 2025
Dialogue: Mandarin Chinese
Region: China
Production Company: London Film School

李佳楠，来自中国陕西省的编剧与导演，伦敦电影学院电影硕士（MA Filmmaking）毕业。她的创作聚焦于记忆如何帮助东亚酷儿群体重塑身份，并通过对酷儿时间性的实验性探索，去想象和描绘全新的酷儿未来。

Jianan Li is a writer and director from Shaanxi Province, China, and a recent graduate of the MA Filmmaking program at the London Film School. Her work explores how memory enables East Asian queer communities to reconstruct their identities, while her experiments with queer temporality seek to imagine new queer futures.

《流浪树》是一个复杂的故事，它尝试在传统的线性叙事中嵌入非线性的舞台场景，把回忆与对未来的想象交织在一起，以此作为一场关于酷儿时间性的实验。但《流浪树》又是一个简单的故事，它讲述记忆，讲述选择，讲述人生中某个无法回避的重要决定。《流浪树》创造了一种纯净的场域，两个女孩，思来想去，最终拷问的是同一个问题，什么是亲密？我希望用电影去守卫某个精微的瞬间，舟和雨坐在廊下对视，那是整个故事里她们的心贴得最近的时刻。不是拥抱，不是牵手，而是目光相接，像一个温柔的吻。

The Wandering Trees is a complex story. It experiments with queer temporality by weaving non-linear stage imagery into a linear narrative, interlacing memories with imagined futures. Yet The Wandering Trees is also a simple story. It is about memory, about choice, and about one inevitable decision in life. The film creates a pure and delicate space: two girls, turning thoughts over and over, ultimately confronting the same question—what is intimacy? What I wish to preserve through cinema is a subtle moment: Zhou and Yu sitting beneath the cloister, gazing at each other. It is the moment when their hearts are closest—not an embrace, not the holding of hands, but the meeting of eyes, like a gentle kiss.