Ever Rooted (Yang Yuzhuo) China |

Ever Rooted
Yang Yuzhuo
China. 2025. 27 min

When an estranged father falls ill his son returns home with his own daughter revealing a lifetime of shame and a fathers desperate plea for belonging Through rediscovered diaries riverbank rituals and a lone tree three generations find that roots arent forged in names on pages but in the quiet soil of forgiveness and home.

YANG YUZHUO

Yang Yuzhuo, a junior student and young director at Dalian Art College, has honed his skills through numerous semester assignments during his studies. After winning several awards in related fields and accumulating substantial experience, he resolutely decided to go all out and film his debut work, Ever-Rooted, in 2025.

DIRECTOR,S NOTE

This film through granddaughter Jinxis dv lens and youthful perspective enters a twilight heavy and secret laden family world. Her return like a beam of modern light illuminates the father son relationship, sealed off by old rules and estrangement. What she documents is not only the final days of her grandfathers life but also how the invisible wall between two generations loosens and crumbles under the catalysis of death truth and kinship. Through daily frictions the directness of the new generation clashes with the silence and shackles of old traditions pushing the parental generation to seek personal redemption and reconciliation in the ultimate questioning of roots and home. The film ultimately explores how love in the honesty of confronting death penetrates misunderstandings dissolves barriers and allows the family tree to regain vitality in a new spring.

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