Fading Shadow(2022)

Fading Shadow is a Chinese thriller set in 1990s Huaichuan County. Police portrait expert Zhang Xin is tasked with sketching a murder suspect, but his drawing reveals the face of a woman who died over a decade ago. As Zhang Xin grapples with this impossible discovery, he's drawn into a dark mystery that challenges everything he knows about the case. The film weaves together past and present, uncovering buried secrets and questioning the nature of guilt and justice. Atmospheric and suspenseful, Fading Shadow explores how the dead can still haunt the living, and how one sketch can unravel a town's carefully buried truth.