Song Fang’s long-awaited second feature film premiered at Berlin shortly before the world it depicts completely fell apart. As such it is the perfect film to watch in this time of socially distanced online film festivals, at least for those of us who enjoy torturing ourselves with a vision

After several days of festival movies filled with storytelling gimmicks and dazzling displays of artistic virtuosity, I was utterly unprepared late on my fifth day at VIFF 2012 for the hyper-mellowness of Song Fang’s debut film about visiting her family as an unmarried adult. It’s a fuzzy blanket