Fireside

In the winter of 1998, sixteen-year-old Hanyu Liu returned to his hometown with his parents to run a mutton restaurant.
The subtle tension between his father and an old friend, coupled with his own growing closeness to a new companion, slowly unveiled hidden fissures beneath the family's seemingly tranquil surface. As the boy's first inklings of desire intertwined with the unspoken past of his father's generation, that late-night gathering around the wooden table laden with mutton dishes began to radiate an unsettling warmth.

Director: Xiaopei Wang

Country: China