Little rabbit
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Zhu Zhu
86min|2025|fictional|English|unsubtitled
Canadian premiere
Content Guidelines: This film contains vulgar language, racist language, sexual content, inappropriate themes for children, and tobacco use scenes
Sunday, August 17 at 7:30
p.m. Innis Town Hall
Screening + Live Director’s Q&A after the screening
Rebecca (Zhu Zhu), a Chinese girl who wanders between Manhattan’s Lower East Side and Chinatown, quietly lives a fragmented life. She did live webcasts while working, performing for anonymous guests in front of the camera – one of the “regulars” sent a little white rabbit and always asked for a private chat. By her side, her father, whom she hadn’t seen for a long time, regarded her as a lucky charm, her close friends painted based on her but didn’t fully tell her the content, and her ex-boyfriend didn’t know what he had left for her. This feature film debut captures the pain of bondage and the soft resilience needed to move forward in a foggy world with a dynamic and intimate perspective.
director

Zhu Zhu, an emerging actor, director and screenwriter, lives in New York. She graduated from NYU Teishi School of the Arts in 2018 with a Bachelor of Arts in Theater. In 2021, she was selected as an inaugural member of the Google-backed Women Filmmakers Short Film Lab, whose short films premiered at the New Hampshire Film Festival. “Little Rabbit” is her first feature film as a director and was shortlisted for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival competition. As an actress, she will appear in the new film “31 Candles” directed by Jonah Feingold.
Cast and crew
- Director: Zhu Zhu
- Starring: Zhu Zhu, Rachel Senot, Austin Amelio, Yang Perry, Jack Kimmer
- Producers: Tristan SCOTT-BEHRENDS, Ani SCHROETER, Rhianon JONES, Roger MANCUSI, Rachel Senot
- Screenwriter: Zhu Zhu
- Photography😀 aisy ZHOU
- Art Director: Carol KIM
- Costume Design: Holly McCLINTOCK
- Editing: Stephania DULOWSKI
- Music: Eli Kessler