Directed By Siyi Chen
China, USA | Documentary | 64 min
North American Premiere
[After the screening, there will be a live in-person Q&A with the filmmakers.]
It’s never easy to talk about mortality with our loved ones. It’s even harder between a physician mother who excels at hiding her emotions under rationality and a daughter who spent her childhood solving math problems next to the morgue. They avoid conversation about mortality and related feelings at all costs – until the mother becomes a cancer patient and the daughter becomes her caregiver.
Sunday, July 30 2023
12:00 PM to 1:24 PM
Quad Cinema
34 W 13th Street
New York, NY
Chinese (Mandarin)
English
North American Premiere
2022
64 minutes
Family
Documentary
China, USA
Siyi Chen
Based in New York City, Siyi Chen is a journalist turned documentary director and editor. She holds a dual B.A. degree in World History and Chinese Literature (Peking University) and an M.A. in News and Documentary from NYU. Her directorial feature debut, DEAR MOTHER, I MEANT TO WRITE ABOUT DEATH, had its world premiere at the 2022 Busan International Film Festival. Chen is dedicated to creating lyrical portraits of women of the diaspora and their relationship with freedom, belonging, and desire.
Violet Feng
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