FIRST青年電影展

Female actress Sun Guo finagles her way into an audition for the male role of the Monkey King and, unexpectedly, is given the part by the female director. Through a process of sacrifice and reinvention, Sun Guo sinks deeper and deeper into the role and what it represents.

A couple separated for many years meet again because of a phone call.

Through the eyes of a fourteen-year-old boy, witness the process of his father's descent into despair and eventual suicide.

A field study of fourteen paintings from China’s Dafen village, as the government rebrands the copy-painting district as a hub for original art. IDFA and Sundance selection.

In a remote mountain forest, rangers encounter a series of eerie events while on their routine patrol and surveillance duties.

In a future of AI-generated images, Jieliang effortlessly crafts his work until curiosity prompts him to ask: "What would my death look like?"