
Second Birth
TAN ShiHan • 2022
After scraching by a wild cat, full-time housewife LIU XIAOMAN discovers recent pregnancy with her second-child, facing with problem of settling down in Beijing and the two-child policy which re-evokes male-child preference issue, she finds herself becomes a giving birth machine and gradually lost herself between ideal and reality.
CAST & CREW
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

TAN ShiHan
Director
Sixty percent of Chinese housewives have suffered from depression, “My life has no color” When the child finally grew up, many women who has college degree began to think: Am I just being someone’s daughter, wife or mother? Women who have similar experience are not minority in the whole world. The purpose of creating this black and white short film is to restore the viewpoints of women represented by my mothers to the greatest extent, to discuss what is the “freedom” they pursue, At the end, I will also restore the color again. I hope they can find this “freedom” and “colour of life”.