In the slums of Chongqing, China, Ms. Hu tirelessly collects strange garbage from the city center and brings them home. She drags back dinosaur heads, giant eggs, and mushroom models, possibly discarded after an amusement park closed down or an event ended, and builds a garden of dreams in her yard. With her unique optimism and surreal imagination, she has built a fairy-tale world of absurdity, a small shrine hung with wishes like lanterns, a bizarre paradise crafted as an escape from harsh reality. She has a son suffering from depression, who sees his mother as the “world’s most foolish mom, who works so hard yet is so poor.” Her place is also set to be demolished soon. Director Pan Zhiqi documented the lives of this mother and son over 10 years for this documentary, which is an impressive portrait of modern China as the relentless expansion of a commercialized city continuously displaces the lower class. (KANG Sowon)