Red Water Entertainment has announced its first release of the new year: the North American VOD debut of Li Xiaofeng’s Back to the Wharf (Feng ping lang jing). The heart-wrenching Mandarin noir will be available on several digital and cable platforms, including iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, in-demand, and DISH, starting January 17th, 2023
Fifteen years ago, Song Hao, a top student in high school, went into hiding after being falsely ID’d for a murder he didn’t commit. As he returns to his hometown as a grown man, it seems that everything has gone back to normal. His reunion with his old classmate Pan Xiaoshuang casts a bright light on his gloomy life. She provides him with a warmth that gradually tames the crashing waters beneath the surface. He decides to start his life anew and reconcile with his father, in order to find the truth about the unspeakable past that he ran away from.
Director LI Xiaofeng co-wrote and played the lead in the 2009 Sundance selection ‘Dada’s Dance’, directed by the leading sixth-generation director ZHANG Yuan. He completed his directorial debut NE ZHA in 2014, and was nominated The Best New Director and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 51st Golden Horse Award.
Discussing the movie, he shares, It’s been 40 years since the Reform and Opening-up. What have we gained and lost from the rapid development of society? Are we prioritizing rights and wrongs instead of simply weighing up the pros and cons in our spiritual life? These questions are the starting points of the film. We, as filmmakers, would be fortunate and delighted to see that the audience could feel the divisive but profound love between the father and the son under the modernization of the traditional society, and the sincerity of friendship, though contaminated. People still possess simple and sweet hopes for love in the streams of worldly life’.
The film gets its North American VOD Debut on January 17th, 2023
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