Berlin-Bound Chinese Cultural Revolution Legacy Drama ‘Shanghai Daughter’ Unveils First Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)

Adrian Bogdan

Variety is unveiling the first trailer for “ Shanghai Daughter ,” the debut feature from Chinese filmmaker Agnis Shen Zhongmin that will world premiere in the Panorama section of the 2026 Berlin International Film Festival. The drama follows Ming, a Shanghai woman who travels alone to a rubber tree plantation in Xishuangbanna, along China’s southwestern border, searching for people who knew her late father during the Cultural Revolution’s Down to the Countryside Movement half a century earlier.