Aier Yu

40-year-old housewife Cai has lost track of who she is and who she wants to be. During one of her daughter’s basketball matches, she inadvertently injures an elderly woman. This seemingly trivial event is a catalyst for a life spinning out of control, as past events resurface while she moves into an unknown future. Director Qiu Yang follows a series of multi-awarded shorts with his debut feature, a mesmerizing and intimate drama about a woman forced to confront the wreckage of her life and her longing for change?

Returning home after years away, Li Yi expects only to endure her mother's pyramid scheme award ceremony. But as the day's carefully staged celebration unfolds, her certainty begins to crack. Embarrassment slowly gives way to curiosity, then compassion, as she discovers what her mother has truly been searching for. Against the glittering spectacle of false promises, Birdie O Birdie explores the fragile distance between judgment and understanding, and the quiet possibility of reconciliation.