At her 70th birthday celebration, the aged matriarch of the Yu family celebrates alongside her four sons and their families. At her party, she suffers a stroke, which precipitates her decline into dementia. The four brothers face crucial changes in their relationships to one another over the course of a year as their fortunes ebb and flow. The film shares its name with one of the great treasures of Chinese art: a 14th-century landscape painting by Yuan Dynasty master Huang Gongwang and mirrors the seven-metre handscroll’s immersive scope. The first film in a proposed trilogy by first-time director Gu Xiaogang with each set among different towns along the Yangtze river.
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains (Chun Jiang Shui Nuan)
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The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.