The Day Is Over (2021)

Living quietly in the mountains, a young girl humiliated by her classmates is eager to go find her father in the city. Her plan is wrecked when the travel money fetched by her good friend is accidentally lost. Unable to repay the loan, and without hope of seeing their parents, the girls take refuge in the pond, where they feel safe and warm, as if returned to their mother's womb. Shot with naturalistic cinematography, Qi Rui's directorial debut is imbued with a lyrical tone and sympathetic tenderness reminiscent of Kiarostami's cinema.