Winner of the French Touch prize in the Critics’ Week lineup of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, Constance Tsang’s intimate, sensitively observed directorial debut stars Lee Kang-sheng (Vive L’Amour, Goodbye, Dragon Inn) alongside Wu Ke-xi and Xu Haixpeng as three Chinese immigrants living in Flushing, Queens—he’s a construction worker; they’re employees of a massage parlor they dream of being able to leave—whose routine lives and relationships are changed forever following a tragic Lunar New Year incident.
Blue Sun Palace
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OCOpen Captioned
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35mm
SFSensory Friendly
Blue Sun Palace
Q&A with director Constance Tsang
Tickets: $20 (members), $25 (nonmembers)
"Each of the three leads in Blue Sun Palace dreams of a transcendence that may never come—Tsang’s superb debut puts viewers on their side, even though we see how long the odds are against them."
“A soulful and passionate meditation on loss. This film breathes the slow cinematic air of Tsai Ming-liang. The more I think about writer-director Constance Tsang’s Blue Sun Palace, the more it seeps into my muscles and my bones.
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Q&A with director Constance Tsang
Monday, Feb. 2 2026, 7:00
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- Constance Tsang is a Chinese American writer, director, and educator based in New York. She recently graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in Screenwriting and Directing, where she was awarded the Robert Gore Rifkind Launch Fund. Her short film BEAU received Jury Selects from an industry panel at her thesis showcase, and won the Directors Guild of America’s Jury Prize in their 26th Annual Student Film Awards (East Coast Asian American Category). BEAU has screened at The Metrograph, Palm Springs Shortsfest, Outfest, Brooklyn Film Festival, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, and Melbourne Queer Film Festival, among others. BEAU is currently available to watch through Vimeo’s Staff Picks. Her previous short film, Carnivore, was a 2018 AT&T Hello Lab project. After premiering on Direct TV, the film was acquired by Alter. Blue Sun Palace is her first feature.
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