Yangzi's Confusion 洋子的困惑

We’re delighted to be collaborating with the Mint Chinese Film Festival and Aya Films to present Women Hold Up Half the Sky “妇女能顶半边天”, a programme of contemporary and classic Chinese films by and about women this September. 

Yangzi, a 10-year-old girl, steals her mother's diary to discover why she abandoned her. But Meihui, her mother, does not want to communicate with her. As tensions come to a head at a family gathering, where three generations of women are present, Meihui (Yangzi’s mother) confesses her struggles and they begin to bridge the gap, forging a new relationship.

Mint Chinese Film Festival (MINT CFF) is an award-winning social enterprise and festival founded by Chinese film curator Yixiang Shirley Lin and Keswick Alhambra Cinema’s co-owner Dr Carol Rennie. They are the first women-organised Chinese film festival in the UK focussed on cross-cultural communication and the representation of women. For further information on MINT CFF’s previous editions, please visit their official website. 

Aya films is a UK distribution and media education company founded in 2011, which champions stories and projects that allow audiences to reimagine through cinema.