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.

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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.

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