A TOUCH OF THE PERSONAL

Director Zhou Quan's award-winning film about a 10-year-old boy's joys and sorrows is set to hit mainland screens later this week. Xu Fan reports.

Loneliness has haunted Zhou Quan since he was a child, but it also is the young filmmaker's inspiration for his directorial debut feature, End of Summer.

The movie's world premiere was at the 22nd Busan International Film Festival in October 2017, and it won the KNN award there. It was the only Chinese-language movie to win at that year's South Korean event.