Sorrows

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MOVIE CATEGORY
Somewhere in Queens, a vibrant part of New York City’s urban fabric, a young woman experiences unrequited love for a man she met at a recreational soccer tournament. This experience will lead her on an emotional odyssey that echoes Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s timeless classic, The Sorrows of Young Werther.
A female-driven, contemporary-set film version of a dense, soaring literary text radiating with poetic concision and graceful linearity. A debut work by an author who skillfully constructs shots, meticulously handles timing, and crafts dialogues that resonate as both “spontaneous”, profound and poetic.
DIRECTORY

Derek Zheng, a Florida native currently living in New York, is a filmmaker and commercial illustrator. After he finished university, where he mainly studied film production and cinema studies, he also started animating. He has made exactly one film, Sorrows.

