After the Snowmelt

Lo Yi-Shan / Japan

Screening

Casa Seat

08-11-2025 / 19:00 h.

Film Information

Year: 2024

Duration: 110

Language: VOSE

Genre: Documentary

Synopsis

At the age of 20, filmmaker Yi-Shan’s best friends, Chun and Yueh, were trapped in a Nepal cave for 47 days due to unseasonal snowfall. Chun died three days before the rescue, leaving Yueh as the sole survivor. Yueh returns and reveals a promise made between him and Chun: the survivor must share their story. To honor Chun’s last wish, Yi-Shan takes up the camera, accompanies Yueh to the mountains, and retraces Chun’s footsteps in Nepal. Gradually, her journey overlaps with Chun’s, blurring the boundary between past and present, and arrives at the same destination. When Yi-Shan reaches the cave, she must confront the future alone.

Director

Lo Yi-Shan (1996) is a Taiwanese independent filmmaker, film critic, and freelance writer interested in human-nature relationships and gender issues. Conveying the beauty, cruelty, and complexity of wilderness has motivated her to make films. After the Snowmelt (2024) is her debut documentary feature film.