Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest

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TWO MOUNTAINS WEIGHING DOWN MY CHEST

PRESENTED BY Diaspora East Cinema

FIlm -

Wed 23 December 2026

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WORM Rotterdam

Start → 20:30

End → 22:30

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Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest
by Viv Li
2026, Germany/Netherlands, 85 minutes, English, Mandarin, German with English subtitles

Viv Li’s feature debut had its world premiere in the Panorama section of the Berlinale earlier this year, where it was nominated for a Teddy Award. After its Dutch premiere at IDFA in November, we show it at WORM on 16 December, presented together with Diaspora East Cinema.

After the screening, Viv Li will join us online for a live Q&A!

Beijing-born Viv got stuck in Berlin after the pandemic and wandered, half by accident, into the city’s queer and alternative scene. Back home, her family has one pressing question: why is she such an oddball? Moving between Berlin nightlife, family dinners in Beijing and drunken late-night talks in New York, she keeps adjusting to what others think of her, of the world and of China, and only gets more lost along the way.

Li turns the camera on herself with dry, self-mocking humour. It plays like a diary that keeps tripping over its own contradictions, about trying to belong in two places that each expect something different from you.

Cineville valid at the door and online on the day itself.

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Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest
van Viv Li
2026, Duitsland/Nederland, 85 minuten, Engels, Mandarijn, Duits met Engelse ondertiteling

Het speelfilmdebuut van Viv Li beleefde eerder dit jaar zijn wereldpremière in de Panorama-sectie van de Berlinale, waar de film werd genomineerd voor een Teddy Award. Na de Nederlandse première op IDFA in november vertonen wij hem op 16 december in WORM, samen met Diaspora East Cinema.

Na afloop sluit Viv Li online aan voor een live Q&A!

De in Beijing geboren Viv strandt na de pandemie in Berlijn en belandt half per ongeluk in de queer en alternatieve scene van de stad. Thuis heeft haar familie vooral één vraag: waarom is ze zo’n vreemde eend in de bijt? Tussen het Berlijnse nachtleven, familiediners in Beijing en dronken nachtelijke gesprekken in New York past ze zich steeds aan aan wat anderen vinden van haar, van de wereld en van China, en lijkt ze zich steeds meer van zichzelf te vervreemden.

Li richt de camera op zichzelf, met een fijne dosis zelfspot. De film voelt als een dagboek dat telkens struikelt over zijn eigen tegenstrijdigheden, over het verlangen ergens bij te horen op twee plekken die allebei iets anders van je verwachten.

Cineville geldig aan de deur en online op de dag zelf!

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