Brief History of a Family
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Brief History of a Family
A Film by Jianjie Lin
2024 - China/France/Denmark/Qatar - Thriller - 99 min.
with Feng Zu , Keyu Gun & Xilun Sun
Language: Mandarin
A middle-class family’s fate becomes intertwined with their only son’s enigmatic new friend in post one-child policy China, putting unspoken secrets, unmet expectations, and untended emotions under the microscope.
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