Strangers in the Mountain 山中来客

Strangers in the Mountain

山中来客

China | 2026 | Suspense, Romance, Drama | 108 min | (o.v.) Mandarin, Chinese regional dialect

Director: Wan Bo

Screenwriter: Luo Pan

Executive Producer: Stanley Kwan

Producer: Li Yixiao

Cinematographer: Luo Pan

Editor: Matthieu Laclau, Wan Bo

Art Director: Lu Wei

Sound: Dukar Tserang

Music: Bai Shui

Starring: Li Yixiao, Luo Pan, Lu Wei, Huang Jingsi, Bai Haitao, Zhao Dahai

导演：万波

编剧：罗攀

监制：关锦鹏

制片：李依晓

摄影指导：罗攀

剪辑：马修、万波

美术指导：陆苇

声音：德格才让

音乐：白水

主演：李依晓、罗攀、陆苇、黄静斯、白海涛、赵大海

Synopsis

In the autumn rain of the 1990s, two police officers enter remote mountains to find a man living in seclusion. Seven years ago, his wife Zhang Xue disappeared, and her body never found. Marked by an extramarital affair and suspected of murder, he withdrew into the wilderness. Years later, new evidence emerges, reopening the case and reviving memories tied to Zhang Xue.

Festival&Award

2026 Shanghai International Film Festival

– Asian New Talent

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.

Wan Bo

Wan Bo, born in 1989, graduated from the China Academy of Art and received a Doctor of Art degree from the Beijing Film Academy. He is now an associate professor and graduate supervisor at the Communication University of Zhejiang. His debut feature Qiantang River was nominated for the 38th China Film Golden Rooster Awards and screened at festivals including the Shanghai International Film Festival and Kolkata International Film Festival. His latest film Strangers in the Mountain was selected for the Asian New Talent section of the 28th Shanghai International Film Festival.