Docs Ireland: Always (A Letter to Childhood)

BBFC RatingDocs Ireland: Always (A Letter to Childhood)

Showing: 25 June 2025

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Wed 25 Jun 2025

CertificateNot Rated
Year2025
GenreDocumentary
Director(s)Deming Chen
LanguageChinese, Mandarin, English
CountryUSA, China, France, Taiwan
Running Time1HR 28MINS
Extra InfoEnglish subtitles, Recommended 18+
Season Docs Ireland 2025

Beautiful, patient, fun. Always (A Letter to Childhood) focuses on an exceptionally talented child, Youbin Gong, tracking his profound psychological evolution through poetry as he transitions from childhood to adolescence.

This film explores the society of children, highlighting their unique ways of expressing themselves within an imaginative world and their gradual loss of innocence as they begin to confront the more realistic adult world.

The film very skilfully uses poems to tell it’s story. These short poems are used as frames, placed in between long shots of great beauty, and dialogue scenes of equal meaning. It includes amazing faces, humans and animals alike, and like the last poem mentions, is an appropriate farewell to childhood.

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