Finding Her is a story about the hardships of rural women and their gradual awakening to self-awareness. A newborn baby mysteriously disappears in a magical downpour, and this inciting incident gives the story enough suspense and momentum. The story uses a genre structure to build a smooth narrative, and uses images with an Eastern sensibility to create the particular atmosphere of the place and the era. The crisis and the stakes rise step by step, and the mystery unfolds layer by layer as the protagonist goes deeper. At the moment when the character takes her stand as an individual against the group, the truth sinks into an even greater, unknowable fog.
Guangdong Province, 1995. Chen Fengdi, a sugarcane farmer, and Lin Shen, the wife of a sugar mill owner, both about to give birth, are hiding in a thatched hut beside the Sidatang pond. At noon, each gives birth to a baby girl, but a storm blows the hut apart into the pond. Risking her life, Chen Fengdi pulls out only one of the babies. Because the baby has no porcelain bracelet on her wrist, she judges it to be Lin Shen's child, and her own daughter's fate is unknown. As she searches for her daughter, events take strange and shifting turns, and the search by Chen Fengdi and her husband Gan Yaozu moves between the pond, a wild man in the great banana grove, and Lin Shen and her husband. As the confrontation escalates and the clues deepen, Chen Fengdi draws closer to the truth: because the baby was a girl, her child may indeed have been abandoned in the pond. To bring the child back to light, she has to face enormous pressure from tradition and morality and dig up the Sidatang pond. But the magical sight beneath the pond plunges the truth back into fog.
Genre:
Family, Mystery, DramaEstimated Running Time:
100 minDirector:
Chen ShizhongLead Actress:
Shu QiLead Actor:
Bai KeScreenwriter:
Chen ShizhongProducer:
Yan YunfeiProduction Company:
Shanghai Turan Pictures Co., Ltd.Production Company:
Wanda Film and Television Media Co., Ltd. | Shanghai Turan Pictures Co., Ltd. | Dongshen Future (Beijing) Culture Co., Ltd.Chen Shizhong: graduated with a bachelor's degree from Shenzhen University in June 2017. In September of the same year, Chen was selected for the VFS Talent Program and received a full scholarship to study cinematography at Shanghai Vancouver Film School.
Bai Ke: film and TV actor and voice actor from the Chinese Mainland. In 2013 he became known to audiences for playing the lead role of Wang Dachui in the comedy web series Surprise, directed by Jiaoshou Yi Xiaoxing. His films include Buddies in India, Stay Hungry, Fly Me to the Light, Legal Partners and The Lock.
Shu Qi: Chinese-language film actress. She made her film debut in a leading role in Soul and Desire in 1995. Her films include If You Are the One, A Beautiful Life, Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons, Gone with the Bullets and The Assassin.
Chen Shizhong: graduated with a bachelor's degree from Shenzhen University in June 2017. In September of the same year, Chen was selected for the VFS Talent Program and received a full scholarship to study cinematography at Shanghai Vancouver Film School.
Yan Yunfei: graduated from the School of Journalism at Fudan University and founded Turan Pictures in 2015 to develop and produce films. Films invested in or produced include Everybody's Fine directed by Zhang Meng, Send Me to the Clouds directed by Teng Congcong, Wind and Waves directed by Li Xiaofeng, and Moses on the Plain directed by Zhang Ji.
Shanghai Turan Pictures Co., Ltd.: founded in May 2015 by co-founders Yin Lu and Yan Yunfei. The company covers film development, production, promotion and distribution, and aims to make quality films that combine a point of view with emotional resonance. Its films include Send Me to the Clouds, Wind and Waves, Moses on the Plain and Barbs.
In a magical rainstorm, the newborn daughter of Chen Fengdi, a sugarcane farmer in southern China, disappears. Facing enormous social and traditional pressure, Chen Fengdi sets out to find the girl.