Her Portrait

Her Portrait

Pan Chuqiao • 2024

Duration: 00:32:16
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: Chinese, English
Country/Region: Mainland China

35 years ago, under the powerful flood of Only Child Policy in China, Guozheng Wang sacrificed his wife, to give a birth to his son. After 35 years, under Guozheng’s morally blackmails, his son, Shuxin has grown up and been married with Zhiqiu. The situation of China's aging population is getting worse and worse at the same time. The government finally gave up the only child policy and introduced the three-child policy to the public. But Shuxin still doesn’t want a child at all. So Guozheng visits his son and daughter in law, to give his final order while his son does everything that he can do to against his father. But everything comes to the end as her portrait fallen on the ground.

AWARDS & FESTIVALS

2024 WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, USA

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

Pan Chuqiao

Pan Chuqiao

Director

In 2021, after more than 30 years, the government finally gave up the only child policy and introduced the three-child policy to the public, while the situation of China’s aging population is getting worse and worse. The story of Her Portrait is set in such a period, shares a family tragedy, the dispute between two generations and the self-salvation of a father. This film not only shows the trauma which the fertile policies bring to the normal Chinese families and how it healed by three generation, but also would like to bring audiences’ thoughts by discussing the problem of Chinese patriarchal system which badly damages female reproductive rights.

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