Gu Shi

Gu Shi (2026)



故事

6.0 2026 83 min —

Director: Amie Song

Cast: Hu Ling, Wu Wei, Wang Maiqi, Chen Xuanyu, Zhang Tongxi

Mystery
A family of four—Dad, Mom, sister, and brother—pulls up to a strange dwelling stranded between crashing waves and towering pines, carrying a quiet, unspoken ache. Their intended short visit stretches into an eerie, timeless pause. When a sudden accident leaves the brother bedridden, the household clings to a nightly custom: spinning tales of the sea, each one strangely erasing pieces of what they know. As the sister wrestles with recurring nightmares, she grows convinced that the hollow spaces in her own past are locked inside the house—and tied to a phantom girl draped in emerald green. With memory rising to meet fiction and the line between them wearing thin, she faces a single, pivotal decision: how to hold on to what truly happened.

More About This Film

Gu Shi is a Chinese-language arthouse drama in which a family of four takes refuge in an old house somewhere between the sea and the forest. The siblings appear to suffer from a hereditary condition involving memory loss, while their parents repeatedly tell stories in an effort to keep family history alive.

Directed by Amie Song, the film combines family drama with magical realism and an atmosphere shaped by forests, dreams and fragmented recollections. Memories themselves become part of the film's mythology, giving the story a poetic approach to grief, catastrophe and the way stories can preserve what people fear losing.

  • Written and directed by Amie Song.
  • Produced by Osmanthus Studios, Alien Makes Film and Electric Eel Films.
  • The film is an 83-minute production from the United States, Hong Kong and Thailand.
  • It premiered in the 2026 Venice Film Festival program.
  • The cast includes Hu Ling, Wu Wei, Audrey Zhang, Chen Xuanyu and Wang Maiqi.

Where to Watch

Gu Shi has an arthouse and festival release profile, so online availability is still developing.