The Half-Finished Heaven
米点云山
China | 2025 | Experimental, Drama | 92min | (o.v.) Chinese regional dialect
Director: Liu Huizhi
Screenwriter: Liu Huizhi
Producer: Liu Huizhi, Zhang Meng, Cui Jiuming, Zhang Qiang
Cinematographer: Teng Fei
Editor: Liu Huizhi
Art Director: Liu Huizhi
Sound: Liu Huizhi
Starring: Liu Huizhi, Chen Xuanyu, Liu Shiping, Liu Huajun
导演:刘辉之
编剧:刘辉之
制片:刘辉之, 张萌, 崔九明, 张强
摄影指导:滕飞
剪辑:刘辉之
美术指导:刘辉之
声音:刘辉之
主演:刘辉之、陈宣宇、刘世平、刘华君
Synopsis
Zao quits his job to search for ancient Tang-era wooden architecture and vanishes. His father, Lei, devastated, drinks himself into a coma. In his dreams, the ancient city is being rebuilt, while Zao, unemployed, follows his maternal grandfather in crafting paper houses for the dead and becomes obsessed with a manuscript titled The Invisible City. As the family reunites amid unrest, memories and illusions blur—until a new house rises, marked “Auspicious Beam,” and Lei catches the aroma of wine.
Festival&Award

2025 FIRST International Film Festival
– Main Competition

2026 FIDMarseille
–International Competition
Director’s Statement
Cinema is the art of montage, and montage inherently carries the meaning of "architecture." This film, through its exploration of ancient wooden structures, the cities of bygone kingdoms,village huts, Han dynasty tomb grottoes, and paper-crafted houses, as well as its dreamlike structure and multi-temporal narrative, touches upon the construction of space and time on multiple levels. In other words, this is a story that attempts to architect multiple temporalities and a non-singular world. The film seeks to explore the relationship between humans and space. Space carries each individual, and each individual, in turn, flows through space in diverse streams of time. Additionally, since this movie is a story about "houses," and film stock is, in essence, the house of images—a space in itself—it shares the characteristics of all things, possessing the traits of life, death, and existence. So we attempt to shoot this film on celluloid.

Liu Huizhi
Liu Huizhi, a native of Juzhou, Shandong, graduated from the Beijing Film Academy. His short film The King Of Beasts Goes Upstairs (2023), has been selected to Beijing International Short Film Festival.








