A View from Home
TITLE
A View from Home
DIRECTOR
Mingzhe Zhou
COUNTRY
Canada
YEAR
2025
DURATION
15′
GENRE
Documentary
A View from Home
With warmth, humour, and nostalgia, ‘A View from Home’ reflects on the joys and challenges of finding belonging, captured intimately through heartfelt conversations with loved ones - all unfolding against the ever-changing backdrop of a downtown Toronto park.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Mingzhe Zhou
Mingzhe Zhou is a writer and director based in Toronto. Having lived in China, Singapore, the UK, Macau, and now Canada, his multicultural background deeply informs his artistic perspective. His work is rooted in a commitment to exploring the complexities of human connection, identity, and belonging. With a background in communication studies, Mingzhe began his creative journey by making short films and branded content in collaboration with platforms such as VICE and the NBA. His most recent short documentary, A View from Home, premiered at Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary festival, where it was nominated for Best Canadian Short Documentary. He is currently developing Fantasy, a narrative short film, and Adventure of Ming Ming in Parallel Silence, his debut feature-length documentary.
- DirectorMingzhe Zhou
- Screenplay Mingzhe Zhou, Yiqian Zhang
- CinematographyMingzhe Zhou
- Cast
- EditingMingzhe Zhou
- Producer/s Yiqian Zhang, Mingzhe Zhou
- Production Company
- Distributor/s
- Project TitleA View from Home
- Project TypeDocumentary
- Completion Date1 January 2025
- Country of originCanada
- Country of filmingCanada
- LanguageMandarin Chinese
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectNo
Mingzhe Zhou
Mingzhe Zhou is a writer and director based in Toronto. Having lived in China, Singapore, the UK, Macau, and now Canada, his multicultural background deeply informs his artistic perspective. His work is rooted in a commitment to exploring the complexities of human connection, identity, and belonging. With a background in communication studies, Mingzhe began his creative journey by making short films and branded content in collaboration with platforms such as VICE and the NBA. His most recent short documentary, A View from Home, premiered at Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary festival, where it was nominated for Best Canadian Short Documentary. He is currently developing Fantasy, a narrative short film, and Adventure of Ming Ming in Parallel Silence, his debut feature-length documentary.
