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When the River Split Open

1h 45mMovieDramaRomance

At the end of an overdue family reunion in their ancestral land, Rain, a non-binary Chinese American discovers a family secret that launches them on a surreal odyssey to seek out the truth about their estranged father—whose disappearance is entwined with the extinction of the Yangtze River dolphin.

DirectorJess X. Snow

WriterJess X. Snow

ProducerPetrus van Staden

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