Film Festival 2025
Returning after ten years away, Lang finds his hometown partially abandoned and overrun by wild dogs. Hired to clear the area of strays before the 2008 Olympics, he forms a bond with a black dog that mirrors his own loneliness.
film details
| Director: | Guan Hu |
| Producers: | Liang Jing, Zhu Wenjiu |
| Screenwriter: | Guan Hu, Ge Rui, Wu Bing |
| Cinematographers: | Gao Weizhe |
| Editor: | Matthieu Laclau, He Yongyi |
| Music: | Breton Vivian |
| Cast: | Eddie Peng, Tong Liya, Jia Zhangke, Zhang Yi, Zhou You |
| Original Language Title: | Gou Zhen |
| Country: | China |
| Language: | In Mandarin with English subtitles |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Running Time: | 110 minutes |
| Director Filmography: | The Sacrifice (2020), The Eight Hundred (2020), Mr. Six (2015), Design of Death (2012), Cow (2007) |
| Awards: | Un Certain Regard Award, Cannes Film Festival; Palm Dog Award, Cannes Film Festival |
| Primary Company: | The Forge |