“A Good Sleep” is a stop-motion short film exploring the overlooked mental health of East Asian middle-aged women—women who have cared for families their entire lives yet rarely had permission to express their own exhaustion. The film follows Lian, a woman who cannot sleep, whose insomnia becomes a quiet rebellion against decades of emotional labor and silence.
Using handmade puppets with worn textures and dreamlike metaphors, the film visualizes the psychological pressure carried by a generation of women who were taught to endure without complaint. Co-directed by Taiwanese-American artist Eugene Lee and Chinese filmmaker Yejiao Zhang, the project blends intimate memory with surreal craft to reveal a world where unspoken fatigue, tenderness, and longing finally become visible.”