Director: LONG Lingyun

Screenwriter: LONG Lingyun, LIU Xingguo, JIN Junqi

Producer: LIU Lei

Director of Photography: YU Linxuan

Editor: Tom LIN, Matthieu LACLAU 

Art Director: WANG Xiao, ZHANG Haoyang

Sound: ZHU Yunhao

Music: Varqa BUEHRER 

Starring: SHANG Yuxian, YUE Xiaoke, AI Liya, ZHAO Yanguozhang, ZHANG Xinran

导演：龙凌云

编剧：龙凌云、刘行果、金俊祺

制片人：刘磊

摄影指导：于麟轩

剪辑指导：林欣民、马修

美术指导：王霄、张浩洋

声音指导 ：朱云浩

音乐 ：贝尔

主演：尚语贤、岳骁恪、艾丽娅、赵燕国彰、张熙然

GROWING APART centers its story on an 18 year-old rebellious skater-boy Cheng Fei who knows nothing about his mother. One day, he finds a notice of a missing girl in his father’s drawer, it was an online friend that he frequented but disappeared two years ago. In his research, he uncovers the dark truth hidden between two families.

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This film depicts the fate of ordinary people in the aftermath of family planning by placing the camera on youth in the modern China. During thirty-five years of implement of one-child policy in China, it imprinted several generations with cruelty. The side effect is notably marked by the patriarchal ideology, more sacrifice of women, who become the victim and accomplice of the era.

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With a contemporary touch, first-time director Long Lingyun successfully creating vivid characters with simple scenes, dialogues, and music. Accompanied by the nonlinear editing, a seemingly brutal tale of youth gradually turns up to a be tragic social drama. In the end, Cheng Fei reconcile with his father, leaves us a hope, guides us to embrace life with the past on the shoulder.