Always
TITLE
Always
DIRECTOR
Deming Chen
COUNTRY
USA
YEAR
2025
DURATION
84′
GENRE
Documentary
Overview

Always
A cinematic allegory of a boy becoming a teenager in rural China. Searching through an emotional landscape of growth, he reflects on the poetry of his solitary childhood.

DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Deming Chen
Chen Deming, an independent director and photographer currently based in Beijing. He studied at the Li Xianting Film School. His first feature documentary film "SONG OF SHIRATORI", which was selected into the 43rd NAFA Nordic Ethnographic Documentary Film Festival and won the Silver Award at the 4th Chinese Ethnographic Documentary Exhibition and the Best Newcomer Award at the Chinese Documentary Academy Awards. Among them, Deming had 18 mins short drama "Night Tour" was selected for the 13th FIRST Youth Film Exhibition.
Credits
- DirectorDeming Chen
- Screenplay
- Cinematography
- Cast
- Editing
- Producer/s Hansen LIN
- Production Company
- Distributor/s
- Project TitleAlways
- Project TypeDocumentary
- Completion Date1 January 2025
- Country of originUSA
- Country of filmingUSA
- LanguageChinese
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectNo

Deming Chen
Chen Deming, an independent director and photographer currently based in Beijing. He studied at the Li Xianting Film School. His first feature documentary film "SONG OF SHIRATORI", which was selected into the 43rd NAFA Nordic Ethnographic Documentary Film Festival and won the Silver Award at the 4th Chinese Ethnographic Documentary Exhibition and the Best Newcomer Award at the Chinese Documentary Academy Awards. Among them, Deming had 18 mins short drama "Night Tour" was selected for the 13th FIRST Youth Film Exhibition.