| Trap Street | |
|---|---|
| Traditional Chinese | 水印街 |
| Simplified Chinese | 水印街 |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Shuiyin jie |
| Directed by | Vivian Qu |
| Written by | Vivian Qu |
| Produced by | Sean Chen |
| Starring | Lu Yulai He Wenchao Yong Hou Zhao Xiaofei Liu Tiejian Li Xinghong |
| Cinematography | Matthieu Laclau Li Tian |
| Edited by | Yang Hongyu |
Production companies | 22 Hours Films, Beijing |
| Distributed by | ASC Distribution (France) - theatrical release |
Release date |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | China |
| Language | Mandarin |
Trap Street (Chinese: 水印街; pinyin: Shuiyin jie) is a 2013 Chinese film written and directed by debut Chinese film director Vivian Qu and starring Lu Yulai and He Wenchao. It premiered at the 2013 Venice International Film Festival, where it was nominated for the prestigious Luigi De Laurentiis Award. It subsequently won the Dragons and Tigers Award - Special Mention and second place in the Award itself at the Vancouver International Film Festival in the same year, and the Grand Jury Prize at the Boston Independent Film Festival in early 2014.
The film tells the story of a young digital map-making surveyor, working for a digital mapping company, who in his spare time helps install CCTV cameras. He becomes infatuated with a young woman who works at a mysterious building in a street he has recently mapped. After establishing what appears to be a growing friendship, he loses contact with her. Determined to find her by using his computing and electronic skills, he discovers that the street has mysteriously disappeared from the electronic record, and the CCTV images of it are not accessible.[1][2]