Séjour dans les Monts Fuchun

A family's destiny unfolds in harmony with nature, with the cycle of the four seasons and the life of a river. - 'During the summer of 2016, I went back to my hometown in order to do some field research for my scriptwriting. My memories of Fuyang were of a quiet, uninspiring, little town. But the longer I stayed, the more surprised I became by the constant transformations that were happening there… I understood that I was lucky to be a witness to this huge, moving transformation of the town. Carried along by these currents, these waves of change, each person, each family is deeply linked to their environment which inevitably shapes each person's inner world. It's their daily life that the film gradually reveals, as if we were unrolling a contemporary painting, that I would entitle �Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains'. China and the West each have their own artistic aesthetics. Neither is better nor worse, there are just differences. Western painting seeks to express space, whereas Chinese traditional landscape painting strives to capture the passage of time in order to keep the trace of something universal: the eternity of time and the infinity of space.' Gu Xiaogang