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Suburban Birds

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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. As he and his team survey the subsiding area, another story is taking place in the same suburban landscape. 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.
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Ben Sachs Chicago Reader 03/11/2020
[Writer-director Qiu Sheng] elicits pleasingly sincere performances from both children and adults. Go to Full Review Chloe Lizotte Film Comment Magazine 06/17/2019
Qiu's directorial touch is remarkably gentle-while rhyming images and stories across plotlines, he avoids schematic logic in favor of a light mystery of unity, seeking a quiet depth beyond sensory perception. Go to Full Review Glenn Kenny New York Times 04/04/2019
Qiu shows remarkable facility as he patiently adds layer upon layer to a mystery that wants to stay one. Go to Full Review Grant Watson Fiction Machine 02/20/2023
8/10
As a debut work, it is sensational, and suggests Qiu Sheng is yet another new generation Chinese director on whom to keep an expectant eye. Go to Full Review Andrew Heskins easternKicks.com 09/23/2020
3.5/5
Qiu Sheng's debut is at times non-linear and experimental, at others a heart-warming coming-of-age drama... Go to Full Review Phoebe Chen Cinema Scope 11/22/2019
There's no reliance on the easy nostalgia of period markers or a childhood boxed away as idyll; both storylines seem thoroughly contemporary. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Sheng Qiu

Director

Zihan Gong

Xiahao

Lu Huang

Swallow

Mason Lee

Xiahao

Qian Xuanyi

Foxy

Xu Shuo

Fang Tin

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Synopsis 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. As he and his team survey the subsiding area, another story is taking place in the same suburban landscape. 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.
Director
Sheng Qiu
Producer
Patrick Mao Huang, Chen Jingsu, Eric Zhaowei Zhang
Screenwriter
Sheng Qiu
Distributor
Cinema Guild
Production Co
Flash Forward Entertainment
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Chinese
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 5, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 28, 2020
Box Office (Gross USA)
$10.1K
Runtime
1h 58m
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