Film | 00:05:51 | 2026

On a Spring Festival night, dog thieves snatch Ah Huang, a family’s Chinese rural dog, amid the fireworks. He escapes and follows familiar scents home, only to be caught again just meters from the gate. Searching for days, his owner finally finds Ah Huang’s faded blue collar on a fence behind a dog-meat restaurant. The film reveals the family tragedy caused by illegal dog theft and trafficking, calling for respect for life.

Meijun Liu studies film photography and production and has long followed China’s animal protection legislation. After Meijun Liu’s own dog was poisoned to death, Meijun Liu learned that the loss of a small animal cannot simply be dismissed as an “accident”; behind it lie real problems such as poisoning, theft, trafficking, and abandonment. Through No Longer Human, Meijun Liu wants to leave behind the line “They, too, were once someone’s beloved family,” so that viewers will pay further attention to animal protection legislation and life education.