This story explores women's desires and struggles. Girls entering adolescence develop a complex sense of gender and go through bodily changes they barely understand. They long for love and attention, yet are the ones most easily neglected and hurt. A young mother who married and gave birth early never learned, or has long forgotten, what self-worth on her own terms means. I hope a feminist film can go beyond women speaking for themselves and reach a wider audience. I want those who know how to love themselves to trust the path they have kept to, and those who have not yet begun to care for themselves to expect more of themselves and treat themselves with more warmth. Even in a damp, rainy season, there will be sunny days.
Shenzhen, 2008. Lin Liang, a tomboy who has not yet had her first period, spends her days playing with classmates. At an age that looks carefree, she endures neglect and rejection from a family that favours sons. Faced with a one-year-old brother too young to understand anything, a father who is rarely home, a mother, Mao Ying, who has always kept her distance, and Lu Yun, who suddenly enters her life, Lin Liang no longer knows how to connect with the world. Years ago, Mao Ying went south to work and met Lin Tianzheng. She became a young mother before she was ready. Her husband's family gave her no time to learn how to be a mother and sent Lin Liang to be raised by Mao Ying's family in Hunan. For years, Mao Ying's "task" was to give the Lin family another son. Now her younger son Ziqi is a year old, her relationship with the daughter who has finally come home grows more strained, and at this moment she is advised to have a hysterectomy. A long-dormant crisis in her marriage and family comes to a head. Lin Liang and Mao Ying rise and sink with the wind and rain outside the window...
Genre:
Drama, FamilyDirector:
Zhao SiyingScreenwriter:
Zhang Mengwei | Zhao SiyingProducer:
Geng QiyangProduction Company:
Shenzhen Duiying Weihua Film and Culture Co., Ltd.Zhao Siying: BA in Broadcast Journalism, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics; MA in Film Directing, Department of Film and Video Production, Graduate School of Digital Image and Contents, Dongguk University, South Korea; CEO of Shenzhen Duiying Weihua Film and Culture Co., Ltd. Her first feature screenplay, Some Days Are Sunny, won the Jury Special Award and the MPA Asia-Pacific Cooperation Award at the 11th Beijing International Film Festival.
Zhang Mengwei: BA, Department of Korean Language and Culture, School of Foreign Languages, Peking University; MA in Screenwriting, Department of Film and Video Production, Graduate School of Digital Image and Contents, Dongguk University, South Korea; MA candidate in Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University; partner of Shenzhen Duiying Weihua Film and Culture Co., Ltd. Her first feature screenplay, Some Days Are Sunny, won the Jury Special Award and the MPA Asia-Pacific Cooperation Award at the 11th Beijing International Film Festival. Zhao Siying: BA in Broadcast Journalism, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics; MA in Film Directing, Department of Film and Video Production, Graduate School of Digital Image and Contents, Dongguk University, South Korea; CEO of Shenzhen Duiying Weihua Film and Culture Co., Ltd. Her first feature screenplay, Some Days Are Sunny, won the Jury Special Award and the MPA Asia-Pacific Cooperation Award at the 11th Beijing International Film Festival.
Geng Qiyang: Bachelor of Laws. She worked in theatrical film marketing and distribution before becoming a film producer in 2018. Executive producer of the online films Twice Born Green Snake and Defend War 2.
Shenzhen Duiying Weihua Film and Culture Co., Ltd.: The company develops content and provides production services for theatrical films and online series. Led by creators and centred on content, it aims to make Chinese commercial genre films and to support Chinese auteur cinema. Its core team, director Zhao Siying, screenwriter Zhang Mengwei and producer Geng Qiyang, has worked on 15 independent films, selected for 25 festivals in China and abroad.
Shenzhen, 2008: the story of a mother about to lose her uterus and a tomboy who finally gets her first period.