An Elephant Sitting Still

A bleak, philosophically rigorous portrait of urban despair and spiritual searching, where characters cling to an impossible dream of transcendence.

In the northern Chinese city of Manzhouli, they say there is an elephant that simply sits and ignores the world. Manzhouli becomes an obsession for the protagonists of this film, a longed-for escape from the downward spiral in which they find themselves.