Director & Screenwriter: Lin Jianjie Cinematographer: Zhang Jiahao Cast: Zu Feng, Guo Keyu, Sun Xilun, Lin Muran Produced by First Light Films, Beijing Intercontinental Brothers Film and Television Culture Communication Co., Ltd. 2024 | Colour | 99 In Putonghua with Chinese and English subtitles Selection, Panorama, 74th Berlin International Film Festival Selection, World Cinema Dramatic Competition, 40th Sundance Film Festival Selection, Firebird Awards Young Cinema Competition (Chinese Language), 48th Hong Kong International Film Festival This is a seemingly normal and perfectly happy middle-class family of three, but a crisis brews within, the father’s career has hit a bottleneck, the mother pursues luxury lifestyle but feels empty inside, and the high schooler son faces the academic pressure. Their peaceful life is disrupted by the arrival of a teenager who holds up a mirror to the cracks of the family’s façade of normality. In his debut feature film, director Lin Jianjie cleverly uses a suspense thriller to disguise an in-depth analysis of China’s “two-child policy”. Everything that you’ve taken for granted become all the more valuable when a competitor shows up to take it. Don’t miss this gripping and critically acclaimed thriller, the first Chinese feature directorial debut selected for both Berlin International Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival since 2006.

01/10/2025(Wed)14:00

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