

Brief History of a Family
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A middle-class family's fate becomes intertwined with their only son's enigmatic new friend in post one-child policy China, putting unspoken secrets, unmet expectations, and untended emotions under the microscope.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
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- Box office
- $2.7K
- Language
- Mandarin
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United StatesUS
- PremiereSundance Film Festival19 Jan 2024
- PremiereNew York Asian Film Festival20 Jul 2024
United KingdomGB
- PremiereGlasgow Film Festival3 Mar 2025
- Theatrical (limited)1521 Mar 2025
AustraliaAU
- PremiereMA 15+Sydney Film Festival7 Jun 2024
- PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival9 Aug 2024
CanadaCA
- PremiereVancouver International Film Festival26 Sept 2024
AustriaAT
- PremiereViennale - Vienna International Film Festival21 Oct 2024
ChinaCN
- PremiereBeijing International Film Festival 20 Apr 2024
- PremiereGolden Rooster International Film Festival14 Nov 2024
- PremiereHainan Island International Film Festival9 Dec 2024
- Theatrical12 Sept 2025
- Digital / OTT4 Nov 2025
CzechiaCZ
- PremiereKarlovy Vary International Film Festival 28 Jun 2024
FranceFR
- Theatrical13 Aug 2025
GermanyDE
- PremiereBerlin International Film Festival17 Feb 2024
GreeceGR
- Theatrical15 Oct 2024
Hong KongHK
- PremiereHong Kong International Film Festival3 Apr 2024
IndonesiaID
- PremiereJakarta World Cinema22 Sept 2024
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Brief History of a Family was released on 26 September 2024.
Audience reviews
1- C7/10
CinemaSerf
3/4/2025
The young loner “Yuan Sho” (Xilun Sun) has an incident at school that sees him helped by the “Wei” (Muran Lin) who takes him to the nurse. That’s the start of a friendship that sees the injured lad introduced to his friend’s kindly mum (Ke-Yu Guo) and rather aloof scientist dad (Feng Zu) who take a shine to him as his vulnerability awakens hitherto subdued feelings with the adults whom, it emerges, might have liked m…
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