Us and Them

Us and Them (2018) is a Chinese romance you can watch online on iFILM. It marks the directing debut of actress Rene Liu, who follows two people thrown together on a crowded Spring Festival train, then pulled apart by the years that follow.

Xiaoxiao and Jianqing meet on the ride home for the holidays. Their early days are all youth and struggle: a cramped Beijing rental, shared dreams, no money. They fall hard and try to build something, but the city, ambition and plain exhaustion slowly wedge between them. A decade later chance puts them in the same room again, both changed, and they have to weigh honestly what survived. Jing Boran and Zhou Dongyu play it in half-tones, leaning on glances and things left unsaid rather than tears. The film cuts between a color past and a black-and-white present, and that single device lands harder than any speech. One for viewers who prefer a quiet ache over a tidy happy ending. Stream Us and Them online on iFILM.