Suburban Birds

Suburban Birds (2019)

郊区的鸟

Hao is part of a team of young engineers called in to investigate a series of craters that have opened up on the edge of the city. Meanwhile, a younger boy, also named Hao, spends long afternoons playing with friends and making mischief until one-by-one, his playmates start to disappear. As these parallel stories unfold, the connections between them proliferate and grow stranger.

Date of release
2019-08-30
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 58m
Genres
Drama
Director
Qiu Sheng

Casting

Interesting facts

Suburban Birds is a 2018 Chinese drama film by Qiu Sheng.

Production

Suburban Birds was written and directed by Qiu Sheng, produced by Patrick Mao Huang, Chen Jingsu, and Zhang Zhaowei, and co-produced by Wuyi, Liu Xiang, and Han Tian, with director of photography Xu Ranjun, art direction by Yu Ziyang, music by Xiaohe, and cinematography by Xu Ranjun.

The production companies for Suburban Birds are A Beijing Transcend Pictures Entertainment, Quasar Films, Cforce Pictures, Beijing Yoshow Films, Three Monkeys Films, Shanghai, Beijing Chase Pictures, Kiframe Studio, and Chan Pictures. It is distributed internationally by Flash Forward Entertainment and Luxbox, and in North America by Cinema Guild.

Qiu has states that the film was a representation of Hangzhou's rapid development, which led it to become unrecognizable, along with the central theme of memory and how land and physical space become reflections of memory. The film was influenced by the collapse of Xinjian Primary School in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

The film is in Mandarin and the Hangzhou dialect.

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