A family of three generations lives in a 120-square-meter home. The division of the space articulates five people’s daily lives, which also throws them into different worlds. They talked about the past and probed for a future. Yet, a crack keeps growing with a repeated pattern full of happiness and grief.

Dir. Wenqian Zhang - 123min - 2022 - China

“A family of five is a common family structure in modern China. It is composed of one’s nuclear family and his/her family of origin. This structure conforms with developing demands of the society during its rapid transition period from the late twentieth century until today. My family is one of them. By making this film, I went on a journey of looking and searching, for what we’ve gained and lost during waves of socio-economic changes." - Wenqian Zhang

"intimate, emotionally painful and personal....an intense and often shocking honesty." - Guardian

"a relational, temporal and cinematographic journey....Recent Chinese history is implicitly outlined, the rapid growth of the 1990s having left a mark on society as a whole. A Long Journey Home is a brilliant quest for emancipation, seeking a place among one's own people." - Visions du Reel, **Winner** Jury Prize in the Burning Lights Competition

"Filmed as if they were trapped together in their home, the film makes the distance between family members palpable, putting a deeply personal lens on the sociopolitical shifts that have chipped away at the so-called “Chinese Dream” of an expanding middle class." - MoMa, Doc Fortnight

"Wenqian composes the film as a series of static shots, all of which are interesting in their studied composition and some of which are downright dazzling in their use of off-screen space." - The Seventh Art