STRIDING INTO THE WIND

Debuted at the Cannes Film Festival last year, this autobiographical comingof-age story is the latest offering from director Wei Shujun, a new Chinese darling for the international indie film scene after he won Canne's Special Jury Distinction Award in 2018. A slow-burner full of long takes and dry humor, it follow happy-go-lucky knucklehead Kun, a just-graduated film student, struggling to keep his life together while clutching to a dream to visit the grasslands of Inner Mongolia in a battered Jeep Cherokee.