The Wolf (2026)

At 60, Yuan—known to those close to her as “Wolf”—is a former village mayor, a mother, a business owner, and a lesbian still living with her aging husband in Shanghai. Her entire life has been a series of quiet compromises, her true self carefully hidden behind the walls of family duty and social expectation. But now, with her daughter grown, she is finally carving out a space of her own—falling into a new love with a woman thirty years younger. Yet in a society where personal longing and obligation rarely mix without consequence, her path to freedom is anything but smooth. Filmed entirely on an iPhone with raw, intimate clarity, *The Wolf* weaves together memories and the present to capture a woman who has spent decades caught between the life she was handed and the one she dares to claim.