Ice Cream, Ice Queen

为了陪儿子完成高中学业，Rosemary从中国搬到纽约。原本在异乡孤身一人的她，意外地在儿子的年轻小提琴老师Annie身上，找到了某种陪伴——Annie的性格和气质都与她截然不同，那种若隐若现的酷儿气息，仿佛来自另一个她从未涉足的世界。 

某天，Annie的突然来访，为两人之间埋下了亲密与坦露的契机。随着夜色渐深，她们的谈话也悄然触及彼此心底未曾言说的情绪。Rosemary意识到，自己正走在友情、渴望和停滞的人生之间那条模糊不清的边界上。 

Rosemary, a Chinese businesswoman who moved to New York for her son’s high school education, has found companionship in the last place she expected: Annie, her son’s young violin teacher, whose queerness hints at a life very different from her own. One day, a surprise visit from Annie sets the stage for a conversation that gently edges into vulnerability. As the night deepens, so does the tension between the two women, leaving Rosemary to navigate the blurry line between friendship, longing, and the loneliness of a life put on pause. 

导演：迟天宇
编剧：迟天宇
主演：Eleven Lee, Minae Kim
制片人：蒋若楠
摄影：陈力格
类型：剧情短片
对白语言：英语、汉语普通话、韩语

Director: Jeremy Chi
Screenwriter: Jeremy Chi
Cast: Eleven Lee, Minae Kim
Producer: Ruonan Jiang
Cinematographer: Shuyao Chen
Genre: Narrative Short Film
Language: English, Mandarin Chinese, Korean

迟天宇是一位现居纽约的电影人。在中国、新西兰和美国成长的经历，赋予了他对情感细节与跨文化语境的敏锐捕捉。他的创作横跨剧情、纪录、实验与混合形式，关注移民、身份认同与人际关系的复杂性。最新短片《冰淇淋女王》获得阿姆斯特丹国际酷儿移民电影节最佳短片奖，并入选纽约、芝加哥、首尔、孟买等地的多个国际电影节。 

Jeremy Chi is a New York-based filmmaker whose nomadic background—growing up in China, New Zealand, and the United States—informs his instinct for subtle emotion and cross-cultural nuance. Working across narrative, documentary, experimental, and hybrid forms, his films explore themes of migration, identity, and the complexity of human connection. His most recent short, Ice Cream, Ice Queen, won Best Short Film at the International Queer & Migrant Film Festival in Amsterdam and continues to screen internationally, including in New York, Chicago, Seoul, and Mumbai. 

《冰淇淋女王》是一部关于孤独与亲密的短片。它讲述了两个身处异乡的女性，在语言和文化的缝隙中，慢慢建立起一段复杂而微妙的关系。她们之间的连接是温柔的，但也伴随着克制和不确定。 

这个故事源于我自己对现代都市关系的感受。作为一个长期生活在跨文化环境中的人，那种时常游离在边缘、不完全属于任何一个地方的状态，这对我来说既熟悉又难以摆脱。同时，我也从许多身边的女性身上看到了类似的情绪——她们沉默、谨慎，但在内心深处，其实渴望真正的连接。 

我希望这部短片能捕捉到一种同时亲密而又疏离的状态。人与人之间的靠近，有时并不依赖明确的语言，而是藏在一个眼神、一次沉默、一段未被说出的情感里。我对这种模糊地带感兴趣，也相信很多真切的情绪恰恰存在于这些不曾说出口的暧昧之中。 

Ice Cream, Ice Queen is a quiet story about two women navigating loneliness, language, and intimacy in a city that neither of them quite belongs to. Their connection is tender but complicated, shaped by language barriers, cultural distance, and the quiet fear of needing someone too much. 

The story grew from my own feeling of detachment and displacement, but also from watching the women around me navigate their own silences and longings. As someone who has lived between cultures and languages, I’m drawn to stories that exist in the in-between—where desire is complicated, where distance is as emotional as it is physical, and where characters are constantly reaching for closeness that might slip away.