{"id":21828,"date":"2025-04-26T18:39:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T18:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=21828"},"modified":"2025-10-18T12:30:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:30:43","slug":"youth-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/youth-homecoming\/","title":{"rendered":"YOUTH (HOMECOMING)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21829 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/youth-homecoming-235x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/youth-homecoming-235x350.jpg 235w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/youth-homecoming-600x894.jpg 600w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/youth-homecoming.jpg 546w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>YOUTH (HOMECOMING)<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">| 2025 \u2013 160\u2032 \u2013\u00a0 A China\/France co-production, Documentary.<br \/>\nWritten by:\u00a0Wang Bing.<br \/>\nDirected by:\u00a0Wang Bing.<br \/>\nOfficial Selection Venice International Film Festival 2024, Toronto International Film Festival 2024<br \/>\nIn Mandarin with English subtitles.<br \/>\nAn Icarus Films\u00a0release. |<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Shi Wei, a young migrant garment worker, flops back onto a pile of soft fabric bundles on his workshop\u2019s floor, cell phone in hand. \u201cShit, I\u2019m exhausted,\u201d he says to the boss who\u2019s trying to get him to sew more clothing before the Lunar New Year break. \u201cI\u2019m beat, I tell you.\u201d Work in the garment factories of Zhili, where some 300,000 migrants from rural China sew clothing, is winding down for the season. Finally, the incessant hum of sewing machines fades away. Now it\u2019s time for the workers to try and convince their managers to pay them so they can return home for New Year celebrations.Youth (Homecoming) is the final installment in Wang Bing\u2019s ambitious trilogy on the young workers of Zhili, shot over five years. But in contrast to the\u00a0 previous films, here Wang focuses more closely on a handful of characters. We follow them on their journeys back to their families, riding packed trains and negotiating perilous mountain roads. Back home, the factories of Zhili seem far away, as Shi Wei and another young worker, Fang Lingping, celebrate weddings.\u00a0After the holidays end, the newlyweds and other workers head back to Zhili. Youth is a fitting end to the series \u2014 a quieter and more intimate film, and a powerful record of the unseen young labor force that drives garment production at a steep personal cost.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0F4XFX45B\/ref=pv_ag_gcf?cmp=rt_where_to_watch&amp;tag=rottetomao-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Now<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YOUTH (HOMECOMING) | 2025 \u2013 160\u2032 \u2013\u00a0 A China\/France co-production, Documentary. Written by:\u00a0Wang Bing. Directed by:\u00a0Wang Bing. Official Selection Venice International Film Festival 2024, Toronto International Film Festival 2024 In Mandarin with English subtitles. An Icarus Films\u00a0release. | Shi Wei, a young migrant garment worker, flops back onto a pile of soft fabric bundles on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,127,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-on-digital","category-co-produced-by-france","category-documentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21828"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22157,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21828\/revisions\/22157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}