German Premiere
The Last Year Of Darkness revolves around a small club called Funky Town, the go-to party space for a group of twenty-year-old DJ’s, drag performers, lovers, ravers and skaters in China. In this unassuming corner bar hidden by Chengdu’s construction cranes, five locals escape their stress, even if it’s only for the night. But as the sun rises and the cranes begin to move again, our protagonists are forced to face what brought them to the party in the first place. (BJQFF)
Ben Mullinkosson was raised in the suburbs of Chicago and trained in observational documentary production at Chapman University. After graduating Ben spent 11 years directing commercial work and documentary films between Los Angeles and Shanghai. The Last Year of Darkness is his second feature length documentary. His first feature length film Don’t Be a Dick About It which won the Audience Award at the International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam in 2018.