Odyssey 2024 Presents: Nostalgia 18

Now in its fourth edition, Odyssey is the biggest film festival in the UK in conversation with Greater China and Chinese communities worldwide. Nostalgia is part of Odyssey 2024’s In Competition strand.

Film Synopsis

There was once a strange town in Hunan, China. In the 1980s, most of the rural areas in China didn't even know what a car was, but this town already had its own fleet of vehicles. It was a "fashionable" town where the cinema would show the latest movies as soon as they came out. Despite being in a remote mountainous area, the young people in the village dressed fashionably. The town was in a poor county, but when its residents went to Guangdong province, they were respected and considered "wealthy".

This town was called "Meitian." However, in the early 1990s, most of its residents seemed to leave the town overnight, and nobody knew where they had gone. Nostalgia tells the story of this southern Chinese town that has undergone an industrial transformation. Nearly 100,000 people from all over China had come to Meitian to work for a loss-making enterprise, but they were eventually scattered throughout the world.

Odyssey 2024 is a hybrid film festival taking place between 16 Sep and 16 Oct across the UK and online via https://www.odysseychinesecinema.uk/.