Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

Teenager Xiu Xiu is dispatched to a remote labor camp on the Sichuan steppes during China's Cultural Revolution. A year later, she agrees to relocate to an even more isolated outpost with an older Tibetan horseman, Lao Jin, to learn nomadic herding. Against a backdrop of breathtaking yet unforgiving landscapes, her story of maturation, solitude, and desperate yearning for home unfolds. The lines between apprenticeship, dependence, and fragile connection blur, exposing human vulnerability in the face of an indifferent system and an immense, silent wilderness.