My Mother's Pain and Mine

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Creative Statement

I returned to a hometown that was no longer familiar to keep my mother company on the last stretch of her life. It was as if I went through her whole life with her again: its love, friendship, youth and dreams. Through the changing seasons in my hometown and elsewhere, and the small details of daily life, I had to face again certain people and feelings that for a long time I had missed or even wanted to escape. Now they teach me how to live, how to face life and death, and how to love.

Synopsis

A reflection on the relationship between children and parents. From the moment a child is born, this love is meant to lead to separation and independence, yet it remains tightly bound by forces that cannot be resisted. What kind of paradox is this? Where we come from and where we go in life seem to be decided early on, in our relationship with our family and our parents.

Running Time:

110 min

Genre:

Drama, Family, Family Bonds

Director:

Song Liying | Wang Xinrui

Producer:

Zhu Dan | Jiang Lu

About the Director

Song Liying: graduate of the Directing Department of the Beijing Film Academy and a participant in the 10th Golden Horse Film Academy. Her short films have been selected for the Chinese Universities Film and TV Awards, the Beijing Film Academy International Student Film Festival and the Beijing College Student Film Festival, among others, and have won several awards in China and abroad. She wrote the film Little Love Letter, nominated for screenwriting at the 9th International Film Festival and Awards Macao. Wang Xinrui: Chinese mainland director, graduate of the Directing Department of Shandong University of Arts, working in film and television production since 2010. Selected works (as executive director): The Boy Without a Shadow, Sanyue Has a New Job and The Wife's Choice.

About the Producer

Zhu Dan: graduate of the Communication University of China, now working at Shanghai Film Studio. Selected works: Be Somebody, The Wild Goose Lake, Black Coal, Thin Ice, The Pluto Moment, Long Day's Journey Into Night and Kaili Blues. Jiang Lu: graduate of the Beijing Film Academy School of Production Management, with a master's degree in media management from Hong Kong Baptist University. She was previously director of the film development department at Junshe Culture and is now founder and CEO of Mifan Entertainment and Zhuozhuang Culture. Selected production credit: My Mother's Pain and Mine. Marketing and distribution projects include, among others, Detective Chinatown 2, Wukong, Little Big Wish, One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes II, The Curse of Turandot, Fate/stay night, Some Like It Hot, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Assassin's Creed. Web series include, among others, Flavour of Life, Two Lives of Joy, Stars Shine Bright and Quartet of Fists.