Time and Tide

Filmmaker Vee Shi’s father, a once proud and stubborn patriarch, is in poor health following a stroke. A longtime Australian resident, Vee Shi hasn’t seen his father for several years. In truth, Vee Shi has always been distant from his family. He heads to his remote hometown in Fuqing with the dual purpose of making a fiction film, and to truly understand his parents for the first time. But as he turns his camera on his family, including his unhappily married mother and single-mum sister, reality and fiction start to blur as generational pain and regret are exposed. Vee Shi’s feature-length debut is an extraordinarily raw and intimate vérité-style film, the first ever shot in the Fuqing dialect.