LIVING THE LAND

SHENG XI ZHI DI

By Huo MENG

M-APPEAL - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2025


Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2025
Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2025
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • CHINA
    • Languages
    • CHINESE
    • Duration
    • 132 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Huo MENG
    • Writer(s)
    • Huo MENG
    • Synopsis
    • In 1991, as China undergoes sweeping socio-economic changes that drive many to leave their rural villages in pursuit of work in the cities, 10-year-old Chuang, the third child of his family, must remain in the village due to family plans. Against the backdrop of modernization, as the advent of technology reshapes their traditional way of life, cycles of births, deaths, marriages, and funerals reveal the enduring weight of tradition and the pressures of balancing familial responsibilities with a rapidly changing world.