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XV Festival Internacional de Cine Documental
Like so many families in China, that of film director Wang Qiong has been affected by her government’s harsh policies on birth control. Her younger sister, Jin, who was almost aborted for being the third child, grew up separated from the family and today has a complicated relationship with them. Meanwhile, Li, the eldest, is pregnant with her second child and wonders if she’ll have a boy like her husband wants or whether she’ll need to have an abortion. In her debut film, in which cinema is a resource that is both healing and revealing, Wang Qiong has the courage to dive deep into the complexities of the traumas of her most intimate circle, connecting them with the endemic evils of an entire country. (SdB)
Spanish Premiere
Wang Qiong is an emerging Chinese filmmaker based in Philadelphia. She filmed her family for seven years to explore the complex power exercised over women’s bodies in China. All About My Sisters, her first feature film, is the work that has emerged from this research. She is currently working on two more films.