‘Always’ Review: Deming Chen’s Strikingly Confident Debut Plays Like a Long Visual Poem
The Chinese director's attractive slow-cinema portrait should establish him as a new and exciting voice in nonfiction filmmaking.
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U.S.A, France,China,Taiwan | 87' | 03/2025 | Documentary
Awards
Dox:Award Winner
World Premier
CPH:DOX 2025
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Synopsis
A cinematic allegory of a boy becoming a teenager in rural China. Searching through an emotional landscape of growth, he reflects on the poetry of his solitary childhood.
a film by
Deming Chen
produced by
Hansen Lin