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World Premiere, A Window on Asian Cinema, 2025

The River That Holds Our Hands

우리의 손을 잡아주는 강擁啊擁

Director CHEN Jianhang

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Family/ChildTravel/Road MovieHistory/War

Aunt Po Wah, born in Vietnam in 1950 to Chinese parents, was separated from her family when war broke out during a visit to see relatives in Cambodia with her grandmother. Although she was tied up, she later makes her way back to China as a teenager and soon finds herself in the chaotic period of the Cultural Revolution. The first-person narrator, a documentary director and member of the Teochew ethnic minority group, takes an old black-and-white photograph and heads for Ho Chih Minh City to find Aunt Po Wah’s former home. What connects ancestors, descendants, those who returned and those who never did, and those still living in diaspora is the river of their homeland—its shimmering ripples and the babbling sound of water. This film documents the flow and continuation of those sounds. Recipient of the 2025 ACF Post-Production Fund, this is Chen Jianhang’s feature debut.

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Screenings3

Sat, 09/20

09:0010:50

Busan Cinema Center Cinematheque

173Guest Q&AKE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Mon, 09/22

19:4021:30

CGV Centum City 2

349Guest Q&AKE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Thu, 09/25

20:0021:25

CGV Centum City 2

575KE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Film details

Director: CHEN Jianhang
Original title: 擁啊擁
Country/Region: Hong Kong, Vietnam, Korea
Year: 2025
Length: 85min
Section: A Window on Asian Cinema
Edition: Busan International Film Festival 2025, No. 30
Original language: Cantonese
Premiere: World Premiere
Format: DCP, Color
Selection: Official selection
Elsewhere: Festival page Letterboxd IMDb TMDB Douban

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CHEN Jianhang

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Director: CHEN Jianhang
Producer: Ziyang LIN
Cast: Zhuowei ZENG, Jieting ZHENG, Guihua CHENG
Screenplay: Jiabao YANG, CHEN Jianhang, Han HUANG
Cinematography: Zhili FENG
Production design: Wenjun ZENG
Sound: Wuchao YU

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