After ten years in Beijing, Fang Chunshu once again missed her dream. Returning to Chengdu, she found herself drifting away from her mother and hometown. The arrival of an outsider, Wang Dongdong, gave her a chance to rediscover her hometown and embrace a new beginning…

Lü Zhang

Zhang Lü is a Korean Chinese filmmaker. Zhang was originally a novelist before embarking on a career in cinema. His arthouse films have mostly focused on the disenfranchised, particularly ethnic Koreans living in China; these include Grain in Ear (2006), Desert Dream (2007), Dooman River (2011), and Scenery (2013). His later works include Gyeongju (2014), A Quiet Dream (2016), Ode to the Goose (2018), Fukuoka (2019), and The Shadowless Tower (2023).