Chinese filmmaker Juno Hong is taking audiences on a nocturnal journey with her feature debut, 'Only the Moon Knows,' now presented at Shanghai's International Film Festival Project Market. The film traces the quiet struggles of an international student working nights at a convenience store—a setting that becomes a meditation on isolation in the modern world. According to Variety, Hong frames loneliness not as a personal failing but as a fundamentally human condition, one that resonates across borders and contexts.

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