Closing the 2025 festival journey of一定是因为我要离开 IT MUST BE BECAUSE I DECIDED TO LEAVE at the Beijing International Short Film Festival @bisffest , in Aurora: Sinophone Shorts Vista, November 8–16.
Feeling content…🖤
#北京国际短片联展 #bisff2025
一定是因为我要离开
It Must Be Because I Decided to Leave will have its German Premiere at @dokleipzig in the International Competition Documentary Film!!
Very thankful for the sensitive, perceptive introduction by James Lattimer and the festival 🙏🏼
Excited that leaving keeps leading somewhere new ❤️
Two films I scored last year—It Must Be Because I Decided to Leave by Zhuoyun Chen and My Father's Son by Sheng Qiu—will have their North American premieres at @viffest this October. Immensely grateful for the opportunity to work with the coolest people 🥹
✨ It Must Be Because I Decided to Leave (2025) will have its NORTH AMERICAN Premiere at the 44th Vancouver International Film Festival @viffest !!
Proud to be selected for the MODES Series — catch the screenings:
📆 Oct 3 · 9:00 PM · The Cinematheque
📆 Oct 11 · 6:15 PM · International Village 7
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🔗/whats-on/viff25-must-decided-leave/
💖 We’re so proud to support the Asian premiere of "It Must Be Because I Decided to Leave" by @zyunc , screening July 21 & 24 at @first_filmfestival in Xining, China 🇨🇳
Shot on 16mm, this poetic short traces a young woman’s day in the diaspora, shaped by memory, displacement, and a haunting dream -echoing how reproductive justice and immigration are deeply entwined.
🎟 Get tickets via the link in bio
🔗 Learn more: reprouncensored.org/events
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#AsianPremiere #FilmPremiere
#MigrationStories #ReproductiveJustice
#WomenInFilm #DiasporaCinema
#ReproUncensored #IndieFilm
#ArtAndResistance
If you’re in Marseille, France, this week, don’t miss the world premiere of “It Must Be Because I Decided to Leave” by @zyunc on July 10 at @fidmarseille as part of the FLASH Competition ⚡️
At @reprouncensored , we believe reproductive justice includes space for stories shaped by migration, loss, and the search for meaning on your own terms.
As a filmmaker working between cultures, @zyunc brings a rare and necessary lens to identity, belonging, and the quiet weight of familial ties. Shot on 16mm, her visual diary moves through memory, ambiguity, and the emotional pull of displacement, echoing the lived experience of navigating womanhood and selfhood across borders.
🎞️ China premiere dates coming soon 🇨🇳
➡️ Learn more about the film at /events/it-must-be-because-i-decided-to-leave
DP: @_lucacioci
Music: @kejuluo
Sound Mix: @paulmasonaudio
Voiceover: @siruwen
Performances: @yq_monochrome@yuweitu jiajazzypeng @dianqi@narcissusmirror@777annapurna@zyunc@richardwcrockett and Oliver Twist 🐕
With support from @neufguy@cue_studio_ and @reprouncensored 💖💖
We’re proud to support “It Must Be Because I Decided to Leave”, a new film by @zyunc . 🎞️
Told through a poetic visual diary, the film explores fractured identity, memory and belonging as a young woman drifts through a city far from home. Her journey, marked by dream logic, shifting faces and the haunting pull of a red car, mirrors the emotional landscapes so many navigate when living between cultures.
At @reprouncensored , we believe reproductive justice includes space to tell complex, personal stories like this shaped by migration, love, loss and self-reclamation.
🎬 Stay tuned! Premiere announcement coming soon 💖
Poster design: @yq_monochrome@cue_studio_
