Moneyboys

C.B. Yi / Taiwan / 2021 / 120 min / English subtitles
Friday 7 October 18.00, Bio Aspen, Hägerstensvägen 100A

When we first meet Fei, an inexperienced young man from a poor Chinese village, he has just arrived in the big city determined to send money back home by doing whatever he has to — including becoming a “moneyboy”— a hustler. Fei’s years-long sojourn away from his family becomes the emotional engine for this superb drama, as Fei moves from naïf to hardened veteran of the trade to reluctant mentor of another boy from his village who longs to be with Fei. It is a journey made bitter when Fei comes to realize that his family might be willing to take his money, but will never accept him for whom he loves.

Screened in collaboration with Nordic Bears.