Toronto International Film Festival

Atlantic International Film Festival

2026 / 15 mins / Canada & China

Mandarin, Chongqing & English with English subtitles

Director: Yung Chang

Producers: Yimin (Fanfan) Zhuang, Dan Montgomery, Yung Chang

Editor: Feng Xi

Cinematographer: Christopher Lew

Composer: Alex Zhang Hungtai

Sound Designer: J.R. Fountain

Re-Recording Mixer & Sound Supervisor: Matthew Chan

Cast: Lu Huang, Ryan Chen, Tao Wang, Heping Gong, Ke Chen, Xia Zhou, Xiaoyun Fang, Yiming Peng, Jiayu Zhang

Art Director: Shing Pooi Goh

Casting Director: Qin Dai

Costume Designer: Siyu Cheng

Colorist: David Tomiak

Yung Chang (Writer, Director, Producer)

Yung Chang is a Chinese-Canadian filmmaker whose work explores the human consequences of social, political, and economic transformation through intimate, character-driven storytelling. His films include Up the Yangtze, China Heavyweight, The Fruit Hunters, This is Not a Movie, and the Emmy Award nominated Wuhan Wuhan. The Highway marks his fiction debut and an important step toward his first narrative feature, Eggplant.

Lu Huang (Cast: Boss Li) 

From her breakout performance as Bai Xuemei in Blind Mountain, to Xiao Man in Blind Massage, and the grieving mother in The Crossing (San Fu Tian), Lu Huang has built a career playing complex, deeply human women. Widely regarded as one of China's leading arthouse actors, she is the only actress of her generation whose starring films have been selected for all three major European film festivals—Cannes, Berlin, and Venice. Western audiences may recognize her from her performance as Bebe Chow in the Hulu series Little Fires Everywhere, opposite Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington. Her distinctive screen presence and nuanced performances have earned her international acclaim, making her one of the most sought-after Chinese actors working with leading filmmakers around the world. In The Highway, her restrained performance anchors the film's quiet psychological journey.