one of li's friends from the united states sent her first movie "fish and elephant" to venice and unexpectedly was selected to participate in a film festival. however, the staff made a mistake that had lost one of the tapes of the film causing the whole project to play incoherently. international reporters were laughing at the film while it was playing. li angrily stood up and shouted, "this is not my movie, stop playing. i quit this film festival!" li the stormed out and began to cry. the festival finally solved this problem with the tapes that were sent by li but did not show any subtitles. at the end, she got an award for the contribution she made to female film.