Berlin International Film Festival 2024, Sundance Film Festival 2024, Hong Kong International Film Festival 2024
Fifteen-year-old Yan Shuo is injured when hit with a stray basketball by Tu Wei. Apologetic about the accident and sympathetic to the former’s difficult home situation, Wei absorbs Shuo into his bougie existence. But Shuo’s arrival forces everybody to evaluate their lives and reconsider the roles fate has dealt them. The spectre of the one-child policy looms over this atmospheric debut that lays bare China’s widening class divide.
Jianjie received his MFA degree in filmmaking from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. His short films, A Visit (2015) and Gu (2017), were screened at many international film festivals. Brief History of a Family is his feature film debut.
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