Pandemic-Era Longing to Gather Fed Qiu Jiongjiong’s Tokyo Competition Title ‘Fuxi: Four Tales of Feasting’
According to Variety, Chinese painter and filmmaker Qiu Jiongjiong began shaping his new film, 'Fuxi: Four Tales of Feasting,' during the pandemic. He told Variety that with the world suddenly forced to pause, people felt an urgent desire to return to everyday life and to gather around a table. That idea became the starting point for the film, which is currently competing at the Tokyo International Film Festival. The film connects four eras through food and shared meals, with each chapter approaching the pleasure of eating and its meaning through a fantastical vocabulary. The title 'Fuxi' is presented as a phrase that evokes both the delight of food and the act of eating.