On the Way to the Sea is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Tao Gu and released in 2010.

[1] The film centres on the director's trip to his childhood home in Wenchuan County, China, following the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

[1] The film was made as Gu's thesis project for the film studies program at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema.

[3] It was subsequently named to TIFF's year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2010.

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