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The Return Synopsis · · · · · ·

If a departed loved one could return, what would you say to them?

Factory worker Fang Liang, unemployed and back in his hometown, dreams of his late father every night. Did his father sense his return? Or has the son never truly moved past the regrets between them?

In his feature debut, director Fang Liang turns his lens on home and family, casting his own relatives in the film. An unrepeatable authenticity in performance merges with dreamlike illusion in the rain-soaked nights of the south—blurring reality and fantasy as it stages a reunion that transcends life and death. The film is poetic, dreamlike, and marked by a rare, multi-layered spirituality.