On September 13th, the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching. It coincides with this festival when families reunite and travelers rush to go home. The documentary "Going Home" is officially online. Many people know Feng Zhangshun because he has collaborated with famous directors suc

On September 13th, the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching. It coincides with this festival when families reunite and wanderers rush to go home. The documentary "Going Home" is officially online.

Many people know Feng Zhangshun because he has collaborated with famous directors such as Gu Changwei, Jia Zhangke, Zhang Yang, and Zhao Liang, and produced many domestic films such as "Petition", "Together", "Here and There", and "Kang Rinpoche". He has won awards at foreign film festivals for films and documentaries. In fact, he is more versatile than imagined. As a director, he also has a series of international and domestic award-winning films such as "Reminder of Time", "I am repairing cultural relics in the Forbidden City" (movie version), "Is a Hundred Years Long" (executive director), and "I am in Dunhuang"? Documentaries and documentary films full of humanistic flavor.

"Going Home" director Zhang Yongcun focused his camera on Feng Zhangshun for the first time, telling a story about his hometown.

How do you understand the documentary "Going Home"?

This is a story of escaping from one's hometown and then returning to it in the forties. The collision of life perceptions and emotions, thoughts on the deep connection between individuals and the world, and deep emotions for hometown are presented to the audience through the comparison of images from the past and real-life scenes.

In "Going Home", Feng Zhangshun describes a period of time in his hometown as a boy, skipping classes at noon, playing in wheat fields in summer, playing in water and climbing trees... vividly embodying the carefree childhood. The film also talks about the constant and heavy topic of the traditional father-son relationship, depicting the difficulty of a father supporting the entire family. The seemingly strict but actually tolerant father quietly does his best to plan a future for his son.

In "Going Home", Feng Zhangshun also talked about the awe-inspiring righteousness of the famous remonstrator Yang Jisheng in his hometown, and how this spirit continued to nourish himself and the entire village. (Yang Jisheng, a native of Rongcheng, Zhili, and a native of Beihezhao Village, Rongcheng County, Hebei Province today, was a famous remonstrator in the mid-Ming Dynasty. His life was full of courage and justice. He was famous for impeaching powerful ministers ‌ Yan Song, for which he was eventually brutally punished. Persecuted and killed, his life corresponds to the meaning of the couplet in the title: "I have an iron shoulder to bear moral responsibility, and a hard hand to write articles").

The documentary "Going Home" is a story about homesickness. Feng Zhangshun was also born in this small village called Beihezhao, which is about to become a country park in Xiongan New Area. In 1999, he left his hometown to pursue his dream in Beijing. Before leaving home, the time spent in Beihezhao Village was a time of wantonness with no regard for the future. In 2017, Xiongan New District was established and my hometown was demolished. More than 20 years later, he returned to his hometown. As a native of Xiongan, he began to truly appreciate the meaning of his hometown to him.

Perhaps everyone who has been away from home all year round will always have a "distant" hometown that cannot be returned to, but "home" has always been deep in the memory. No matter what changes, the hometown has always been there, holding and holding everyone. Nourishing, everlasting.

The mountains and rivers remain the same, and the hometown will last forever. The way home is not far away.

(Correspondent Liu Di Jiang Jin)