Sleep with Your Eyes Open

Drama, Comedy · 2024

Lixue doesn’t ask herself if she likes Recife. She certainly doesn’t want to ask whether her new city likes her, after being sent there to live with her aunt. Aunt Lili owns an emporium of shops for Chinese import products and lives with her family and her workers on the 22nd floor of an exclusive apartment building. Much to the disapproval of the upper-class Brazilian landlords, who think the Chinese immigrants don’t belong in the tower. When Lixue disappears from the city, Ah arrives on the scene: the first tourist in Recife in years.

Starring

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Meike Martens, Chen Xiao Xin, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Wang Shin-Hong, Emilie Lesclaux, Liao Kai Ro, Tu Duu-chih, Justine O, Lu Yang Zong

Director

Nele Wohlatz