All About My Sisters
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Release Year:
2021
Publish Date: 21 July 2023 00:00:00 UTC
Story:
This is a film is about remembering and forgetting, ending and restarting, forgiving and reconciliation, scarring and healing. With an HD camera, 22-year-old Qiong digs into her family history and reality, exploring the complexity of politics, gender, sex, birth control as well as the social political power over women’s bodies.
This is a film is about remembering and forgetting, ending and restarting, forgiving and reconciliation, scarring and healing. With an HD camera, 22-year-old Qiong digs into her family history and reality, exploring the complexity of politics, gender, sex, birth control as well as the social political power over women’s bodies.
Casts & Crews:
WANG Qiong
Directors
Runtime:
175
minutes
Language:
Mandarin
Subtitles:
Chinese, English
Festivals & Awards:
2021 International Film Festival Rotterdam - Bright Future Competition, Netherland
2021 International Film Festival Rotterdam - Bright Future Competition, Netherland
Tags:
#One Child Policy, #BirthRight, #Feminism
Director‘s Statement:
Under the one-child policy, many women repeatedly aborted their pregnancies until they conceived a male heir. Families like mine were disrupted... but nobody talks about it. This project started with modest aspirations: to throw into the open the questions and tensions that had built up during my childhood. What actually happened when the doctor gave my sister the lethal injection—how did she survive? How has her past affected her childhood, adulthood, and now her own motherhood? How much resentment remains? Is there any possibility of us even talking about it? Why does my elder sister take abortion so lightly? This history has been a sensitive topic about which nobody has expressed themselves openly. It is a deathly quiet: a tense truce. My family is not alone: in that era there were millions of families like mine: helpless and desensitized parents, abandoned lives. I’d like to document women like my mother and sisters and reflect on our notions of life and existence.
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WANG Qiong
Director
