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Emily Chan

Madalena

Drama

2021

Madalena

Mada is an insomniac taxi driver who drives the graveyard shift to ease his pining for his ex-wife. Lena has been constantly working around the clock for the past eight years to send money to her daughter and mother on the mainland. After a serendipitous meeting, Mada offers to become Lena’s chauffeur, setting the course for romance as they bond over their nightly drives. Turning away from the bright lights of the casinos in favor of grittier working-class lives in her city, Macau-based director Emily Chan crafts an achingly humanistic love story between two wounded souls. 

96 min

Cantonese

About the Director

Emily Chan is a screenwriter, director and producer in Macau. In 2013, she self-financed the filming of her first co-produced work 'Timing'. She then signed in Beijing Chen Ming Television Culture Media Co. In 2015, she got her Master’s degree of Journalism in Reming University, China. She has won The Best Film program in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Film Production Investment and Trade Fair in 2014 and 2015. With her love fantasy drama Unexpected she won the WTUF Outstanding Film Project Award in the 19th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival.

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