Ding Mao, a supermarket shelf stocker, accidentally cooks the store's ornamental shark and begins hearing voices. One strange event follows another, leading him on an absurd search for his father.
Genre:
DramaDirector:
Zhong KaifengScreenwriter:
Zhong Kaifeng, Wu Linfeng, Cao Yi, Huang NianzuProducer:
Wang Tianxiao, Jane ZhengProduction Company:
Xiamen Tianling Culture Co., Ltd.Screenwriter and director. Graduated in directing from the Central Academy of Drama in 2018. Writes screenplays, fiction and music. His first feature screenplay, Swimming in a Whale, was in the top 10 of the 7th Qingcong Program and the top 15 of the 2022 Golden Rooster Films Project Market.
Jane Zheng: holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Melbourne and a master's degree in television journalism from the University of London. Producer of Dead Pigs, selected for the World Cinema Dramatic Competition of the 34th Sundance Film Festival. Producer of the China-US co-production The Farewell, which received a 2020 Golden Globe nomination for best film, with lead actress Awkwafina winning the Golden Globe for Best Actress. In 2020 she financed and produced the China-US co-production documentary Found, distributed worldwide by Netflix, with a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score and a Douban rating of 8.7. From 2021 to 2023 she produced A Song Sung Blue, selected for the Directors' Fortnight at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and the A Window on Asian Cinema section of the 28th Busan International Film Festival, and winner of the Fei Mu Award for Best Director and the Audience Award in the Crouching Tigers competition of the 7th Pingyao International Film Festival. Wang Tianxiao: graduated in film and TV production from the Central Academy of Drama; founder of Tianling Culture. Formerly worked at Showbox's China division and director Zhang Chiyu's studio at Mahua FunAge, and took part in developing the Korean webtoon adapted as Moon Man. He acquired the adaptation rights to the news story "I'm Not a Drug Lord, I'm Just a Father"; the feature adaptation has Chen Kuo-fu as executive producer, the documentary There Will Be Another Spring, based on the same story, won the Most Market Potential Pitch at the China Documentary Conference and is co-produced with iQIYI (in post-production), and a series adaptation is in script development with iQIYI's Canran Studio. He also holds the rights to the Japanese manga Inside Mari and the Chinese sci-fi novel To Where the Stars Burn, both in script development.
Wu Linfeng: screenwriter and director. His film White Bird was nominated for best short film at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival, and his film Spring in Bloom was selected for the Forum of the 69th Berlin International Film Festival.