{"data-model-common":[{"name":"lang", "value":"en"} ,{"name":"detail-page-free", "type":"replicant", "value": [ ]} ,{"name":"programmeDescription", "type":"text", "value":"<div style="text-align: justify;">Director & Screenwriter: Lin Jianjie</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Cinematographer: Zhang Jiahao</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Cast: Zu Feng, Guo Keyu, Sun Xilun, Lin Muran</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Produced by First Light Films, Beijing Intercontinental Brothers Film and Television Culture Communication Co., Ltd.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">2024 | Colour | 99'</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">In Putonghua with Chinese and English subtitles<br /><br /><span style="color: #244cff;">Selection, Panorama, 74<sup>th</sup>  Berlin International Film Festival</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #244cff;">Selection, World Cinema Dramatic Competition, 40<sup>th</sup> Sundance Film Festival</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #244cff;">Selection, Firebird Awards Young Cinema Competition (Chinese Language), 48<sup>th</sup> Hong Kong International Film Festival</span><br /><br /> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> </div>  "}]}

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, 74^th Berlin International Film Festival

Selection, World Cinema Dramatic Competition, 40^th Sundance Film Festival

Selection, Firebird Awards Young Cinema Competition (Chinese Language), 48^th 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.