THE RIVER OF LIFE

生命的河流

Directed by Yang Pingdao

China Now / China / 2014 / Experimental, Family, Hybrid Documentary / 104 mins / Mandarin with Chinese, English subtitles / HD / West Coast Premiere

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THE RIVER OF LIFE

UltraStar Mission Valley
Sunday, May 1, 2016 7:20 pm

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Yang Pingdao is one of China’s most exciting emerging filmmakers. Using an innovative structure, based on the distinctive texture of family memory through space and time, Yang invents something poised delicately between fiction and documentary to capture crystallized moments in his family history, to recreate in cinematic form its emotional weight and variety, woven around the life and death of his grandmother, and the birth of his child. Opening film and prize winner of BIFF 2014. –Shelly Kraicer, co-organizer of Cinema on the Edge