9 minutes. One bar. A father, a search, and someone who shouldn't be there.
In Germany, A father from China walked into a bar to search for his son who’d been missing for years. But in the bar, out of the blue, he encountered “her”…
Acting
Anqi Zhu's wordless devastation in under 10 minutes.
Direction
Ding turns a single location into psychological terrain.
Director
Zhiwen Ding
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title's Chinese characters deliberately echo classic 'searching son' folk tales, subverting expectations of reunion.
Ding filmed the entire bar sequence in a single 4am take after the location threatened to evict the crew.
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