A young land developer returns to his childhood home in the Chinese countryside for the first time in years to convince his stubborn father to sell the family plum orchard. When the two struggle to understand each other, they turn to an old karaoke machine to find a common language.

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Plum Town
Dir. Kelly Yu
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"Carefully and lovingly coded within Plum Town is a message we could all benefit to hear. How does one move forward? How do we embrace our future and the change that inevitably comes? It starts by honoring the past. Yu has done this and more." - S/W Curator, Lorraine Caffery

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"Plum Town follows Xiao Li as he leaves Shanghai to visit his father in his rural hometown and while the film is rooted with such precise cultural specificity, it’s easy to feel how its themes are universal. There’s a particular thread to this narrative that really resonated with me, one in which Xiao Li pushes his father to want a better life without realizing that he’s limited by his own definition of what that means. While Xiao Li seems to differ from his father at every turn (sushi vs bao zi or rap vs folk), it’s a wonderful reminder that some bonds can never be broken." - S/W Curator, Irina Wirjan

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CAST + CREW

Starring: Richard Ouyang, Jeff Chen

Writer/Director: Kelly Yu
Producer: Jean Liu, Kelly Yu
Executive Producer - Jason Michael Berman
Cinematographer - Philips Shum
Production Designer - Yudi Zhang
Editor - Stephen Pfeil
Composer - Andrew Morgan Smith
Sound Designer - Kai Scheer
Art Director - Justine Chen

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