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Above the Dust (2025)
Directed by Wang Xiaoshuai
Drama · 2h 03m
Ten-year-old Wo Tu dreams of having a water pistol like other boys in his village. Even though his father promised, he fails to bring one from the city. But there is one hope for Wo Tu: his dying grandfather assures him to grant him the wish as a ghost. After his death, the old man visits the boy in his dreams, initiating a treasure hunt. Soon, the limits between reality and dream, past and present, become more and more blurred. A portrait of the profound love for the land, across three generations of a family in modern Chinese rural life.
Cast
Yong Mei
Zu Feng
Wang Zichuan
Wang Jingchun
Crew
- Director
- Wang Xiaoshuai
- Writer
- Wang Xiaoshuai
- Director of Photography
- Kim Hyun-seok
- Original Music Composer
- Juho Nurmela, Ella van der Woude
- Producer
- Xuan Liu
Details
- Original title
- 沃土
- Release date
- 2025-04-24
- Runtime
- 2h 03m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- ZH
- Spoken languages
- Mandarin
- Countries
- China, Netherlands
- Production
- Lemming Film, Dongchun Films