Blue Sun Palace
藍色太陽宮

Within the confines of a massage parlor in Flushing, Queens, Amy and Didi navigate romance, happiness, and the obligations of family thousands of miles from home. Despite the physical and emotional toll their work extracts, the women who live at the parlor have fortified an impenetrable sisterhood.

When tragedy shatters the rhythm of their Lunar New Year, Amy is jolted into confronting her own desires for the first time. Though she finds temporary solace in Cheung, a married man torn between obligations in Taiwan and connections in Queens, she soon realizes survival demands leaving more than just the city behind. Director Tsang crafts a poignant portrait of grief and displacement in Blue Sun Palace, exposing the precariousness of this immigrant enclave. With remarkable restraint, she lets her experienced actors sit in the quiet melancholy of deferred dreams—dreams that persist, even when their realization seems impossible.

The film’s generosity of spirit refuses to villainize its characters: not Cheung, entangled in affairs alongside his distant family; not the women who oscillate between solidarity and survival. In this hidden corner of New York, Blue Sun Palace illuminates transient lives grasping for permanence—and the fragile bonds that make displacement bearable.

CONSTANCE TSANG
Constance Tsang is a Chinese-American writer, director, and educator based in New York. She graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in Screenwriting and Directing. After shooting several short films including Carnivore (2018) and Beau (2021), she made her debut feature Blue Sun Palace (2024) which premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week.

Sat Apr 26, 2025 | 21:15
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Red Lotus 2025

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USA 2024
116 Min | Color | Chinese, English, Minnan with English subtitles

Directed by Constance TSANG

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