Ice Cream, Ice Queen
Director：Jeremy Chi
Screenwriter：Jeremy Chi
Cast：Eleven Lee, Minae Kim
Producer：Ruonan Jiang
Cinematographer：Shuyao Chen
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Language：English, Mandarin Chinese, Korean
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SYNOPSIS
Rosemary, a Chinese businesswoman who moved to New York for her son’s high school education, has found companionship in the last place she expected: Annie, her son’s young violin teacher, whose queerness hints at a life very different from her own. One day, a surprise visit from Annie sets the stage for a conversation that gently edges into vulnerability. As the night deepens, so does the tension between the two women, leaving Rosemary to navigate the blurry line between friendship, longing, and the loneliness of a life put on pause.
Director Biography
Jeremy Chi is a New York-based filmmaker whose nomadic background—growing up in China, New Zealand, and the United States—informs his instinct for subtle emotion and cross-cultural nuance. Working across narrative, documentary, experimental, and hybrid forms, his films explore themes of migration, identity, and the complexity of human connection. His most recent short, Ice Cream, Ice Queen, won Best Short Film at the International Queer & Migrant Film Festival in Amsterdam and continues to screen internationally, including in New York, Chicago, Seoul, and Mumbai.
Director's Statement
Ice Cream, Ice Queen is a quiet story about two women navigating loneliness, language, and intimacy in a city that neither of them quite belongs to. Their connection is tender but complicated, shaped by language barriers, cultural distance, and the quiet fear of needing someone too much. The story grew from my own feeling of detachment and displacement, but also from watching the women around me navigate their own silences and longings. As someone who has lived between cultures and languages, I’m drawn to stories that exist in the in-between—where desire is complicated, where distance is as emotional as it is physical, and where characters are constantly reaching for closeness that might slip away.
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