Film
May the Soil Be Everywhere
2025 · 1h 36m · Documentary
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Overview
When filmmaker Yehui Zhao begins to film her grandmother, she embarks on an excavation of her family’s past and their long-lost ancestral village in the vast mountain range of Loess Plateau. She sets out to search for the story of her great-grandfather and, in the process, discovers the land that generations before her cultivated alongside the cave dwellings that they called home. Here she pays tribute to her family’s heritage, bearing witness to its relationship with the land, labor, and resilience. A shapeshifting and playful feature debut, the film is infused with performance, poetry, and animation as Zhao constructs a living archive of oral history and community theater. Summoning the past into the present, May the Soil Be Everywhere chronicles China’s history of war, famine, and rapid urbanization through the lens of four generations in one family.
Crew
- Yehui ZhaoDirector · Producer
- Fenge YuanProducer
- Andrew FelsherProducer
- Véronique BernardProducer
Details
- Release date
- February 28, 2025
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Documentary
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