So Long, My Son

'Di Jiu Tian Chang', 2019

'We're waiting to grow old'. This sentence briefly sums up Yaoyun and his wife Liyun's bitter realization about their lives. They were once a happy family - until their son drowned playing by a reservoir. And so Yaojun and Liyun leave their home and plunge into the big city, although nobody knows them there and they cannot even understand the local dialect. Their adopted son Liu Xing does not offer them the comfort they had hoped for either. Defiantly rejecting his 'foreign' parents, he one day disappears altogether. The married couple are repeatedly enmeshed in their memories. Finally, they decide to return to the site of their lost hopes. In this family saga spanning three decades of Chinese history, the private and the political merge and the individual gets caught up in the gears of a society in the throes of constant change. Part melodrama, part critique of the times, this film takes us from the country's upheaval in the 1980s following the Cultural Revolution to the prospering ...

'We're waiting to grow old'. This sentence briefly sums up Yaoyun and his wife Liyun's bitter realization about their lives. They were once a happy family - until their son drowned playing by a reservoir. And so Yaojun and Liyun leave their home and plunge into the big city, although nobody knows them there and they cannot even understand the local dialect. Their adopted son Liu Xing does not offer them the comfort they had hoped for either. Defiantly rejecting his 'foreign' parents, he one day disappears altogether. The married couple are repeatedly enmeshed in their memories. Finally, they decide to return to the site of their lost hopes. In this family saga spanning three decades of Chinese history, the private and the political merge and the individual gets caught up in the gears of a society in the throes of constant change. Part melodrama, part critique of the times, this film takes us from the country's upheaval in the 1980s following the Cultural Revolution to the prospering ...

Director

Xiaoshuai Wang

Runtime

185 minutes

Type

Feature

Genre

Drama

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So Long, My Son

Xiaoshuai Wang, 2019

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Countries

China

Languages

Chinese

Awards

To Ten Chinese Films Festival

Nominated

2020

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Golden Carp Film Award - International

Winner(s): Zhao-Yan Guo-Zhang

Nominated

2020

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Golden Carp Film Award - International

Winner(s): Mei Yong

Nominated

2020

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Golden Carp Film Award - International

Winner(s): Xi Qi

Nominated

2020

Outstanding Film

CCF Award

Nominated

2020

Best Achievement in Directing

Golden Carp Film Award - International

Nominated

2020

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Golden Carp Film Award - International

Winner(s): Jingchun Wang

Faro Island Film Festival

Winner

2020

Best Ensemble Performance

Golden Carp Film Award - International

Winner

2020

Best Leading Actress-Audience

Golden Carp Film Award - Chinese

Winner(s): Mei Yong

Nominated

2020

Best Motion Picture of the Year

Golden Carp Film Award - International

Nominated

2020

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Golden Carp Film Award - International

Winner(s): Jingchun Wang

Nominated

2020

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Golden Carp Film Award - International

Winner(s): Mei Yong

Nominated

2020

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Golden Carp Film Award - International

Winner(s): Liya Ai

Iqiyi TV and Movie Awards

Winner

2019

Best Actor in a Motion Picture

Altazor Award

Winner(s): Jingchun Wang

China Film Critics Association Award

Winner

2019

Top Ten Films

China Film Critics Award

Guangzhou Student Film Festival

Nominated

2019

Favorite Actress

Copihue de Oro Award

Winner(s): Mei Yong

Nominated

2019

Favorite Director

Students' Choice Award

Winner(s): Xiaoshuai Wang

Nominated

2019

Favorite Supporting Actor

Students' Choice Award

Winner(s): Roy Wang

Nominated

2019

Favorite Supporting Actress

Students' Choice Award

Winner(s): Jingjing Li

Sir Movie Cultural And Entertainment Industry Award

Winner

2019

Best Leading Actor in a Motion Picture

Jury Award

Winner(s): Jingchun Wang

Nominated

2019

Best Leading Actress in a Motion Picture

Jury Award

Winner(s): Mei Yong

Asia Pacific Screen Awards

Nominated

2019

Achievement In Cinematography

Jury Prize

Nominated

2019

Achievement in Directing

Asia Pacific Screen Award

Uruguay International Film Festival

Winner

2019

Special Jury Award

Jury Prize

Winner

2019

Audience Award

Film by the Sea International Film Festival

Nominated

2019

Film and Literature Award

Shanghai Film Critics Awards

Winner

2020

Top Ten Films

China Film Critics Award

Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival

Winner

2019

Silver Bear for Best Actor

Prizes of the FIPRESCI Jury

Winner(s): Jingchun Wang

Winner

2019

Silver Bear for Best Actor

Prizes of the FIPRESCI Jury

Winner(s): Mei Yong

Storyline

Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.

'We're waiting to grow old'. This sentence briefly sums up Yaoyun and his wife Liyun's bitter realization about their lives. They were once a happy family - until their son drowned playing by a reservoir. And so Yaojun and Liyun leave their home and plunge into the big city, although nobody knows them there and they cannot even understand the local dialect. Their adopted son Liu Xing does not offer them the comfort they had hoped for either. Defiantly rejecting his 'foreign' parents, he one day disappears altogether. The married couple are repeatedly enmeshed in their memories. Finally, they decide to return to the site of their lost hopes. In this family saga spanning three decades of Chinese history, the private and the political merge and the individual gets caught up in the gears of a society in the throes of constant change. Part melodrama, part critique of the times, this film takes us from the country's upheaval in the 1980s following the Cultural Revolution to the prospering ...

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'We're waiting to grow old'. This sentence briefly sums up Yaoyun and his wife Liyun's bitter realization about their lives. They were once a happy family - until their son drowned playing by a reservoir. And so Yaojun and Liyun leave their home and plunge into the big city, although nobody knows them there and they cannot even understand the local dialect. Their adopted son Liu Xing does not offer them the comfort they had hoped for either. Defiantly rejecting his 'foreign' parents, he one day disappears altogether. The married couple are repeatedly enmeshed in their memories. Finally, they decide to return to the site of their lost hopes. In this family saga spanning three decades of Chinese history, the private and the political merge and the individual gets caught up in the gears of a society in the throes of constant change. Part melodrama, part critique of the times, this film takes us from the country's upheaval in the 1980s following the Cultural Revolution to the prospering ...

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Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.

Cast & crew

Cast

Jingchun Wang

Actor

Mei Yong

Actress

Xi Qi

Actress

Crew

Director

Xiaoshuai Wang

Screenwriter

Mei Ah

Screenwriter

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