A young girl who treated her pets as comrades and liked to play with construction blocks, experiences her life changing after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Direction
Wang Yilin packs a lifetime into nine minutes
Writing
"Comrades" as pets, friends, and vanished ideology
Director
Wang Yilin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wang Yilin grew up in post-Soviet China, where communist nostalgia and critique coexist uneasily—this film speaks to that generational limbo.
The title's Chinese word for 'comrades' (同志) was repurposed as LGBTQ+ slang, adding layered meaning to a film about lost solidarity.
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