52nd edition of New Directors/New Films
Festival&Award
Coo Coo Quark Quark
咕咕呱呱
China | 2026 | Documentary | 100 min | (o.v.) Mandarin Chinese
Director: Zhu Xin
Screenwriter: Zhu Xin, Fang Tianyu
Producer: Zhu Xin, Chen Xinjialan
Cinematographer: Zheng Shuyang
Editor: Wen Baigao
Sound: Lai Chenxin
Music: Timon WAWRECKZO
Cast: Fang Tianyu, Chen Yanqing, Liang Zichen, Fang Zhou, Zhu Xin, Guo Weimin
导演: 祝新
编剧：祝新 方天宇
制片人：祝新 陈馨伽兰
摄影指导： 郑舒扬
剪辑：温柏高
声音：赖晨昕
音乐：凡天蒙
演员：方天宇 陈沿青 梁紫晨 方舟 祝新 郭为民
Synopsis
A group of Chinese post-90s youths set out to search for something precious they lost in childhood. As the journey unfolds, each revisits their memories, reconstructing a past where reality and imagination intertwine, only to find that the meaning of childhood has quietly changed within them.
Festival&Award
2026 Shanghai International Film Festival
– SIFF Documentary
Director’s Statement
Centered on the confusion and obsessions of China’s post-90s only-child generation, the film uses the search for lost objects as a starting point to explore the tension between young people’s aspirations for the future and their cherished memories of the past.
ZHU XIN
Zhu Xin was born in Hangzhou in 1996, graduated from China Academy of Arts. His first feature film Vanishing Days was in New Currents Competition at the 23rd Busan IFF, selected in the Forum section at the 69th Berlin IFF. His documentary film A Song River won the Youth Jury Award and the Cinephilia Critics’ Award at the 8th Pingyao IFF. His latest film All Quiet at Sunrise was selected at the 11th Berlin Critics’ Week, and it’s also in the Young Cinema Competition at the 49th Hong Kong IFF. In 2025, he’s invited as the Filmmaker in Focus at the 15th Beijing IFF, to showcase his feature films and shorts film in the screening program.