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Lin Jianjie’s 'Brief History of a Family' focuses on a teenage boy, his parents and the classmate who becomes their surrogate second son.

Brief History of a Family made a splash at Sundance and is about to screen at the Berlin film festival. Its Chinese director, Lin Jianjie, reflects on its subject – China’s middle class – and dreamlike ending.

23/01/2024 - Everybody’s looking for something in the meticulously realised debut feature from Chinese director Jianjie Lin

Lin Jianjie’s unsettling drama, which will premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, exposes hidden tensions in a post-one-child-policy Chinese family as the son’s mysterious friend becomes a fixture.

Saoirse Ronan stars in Nora Fingscheidt’s 'The Outrun.'

Films starring Saoirse Ronan and Justice Smith are set for Berlin Film Festival's Panorama section.