She, A Chinese
Filmmaker: Xiaolu Guo
UK:France:Germany / 2010 / 98 mins / Mandarin:English
Opening Weekend Date: 26 February 2010
Cinemas screening the film: ICA
This is the story of Mei, a young woman on a trip from East to West after her escape from her provincial Chinese village. Beginning in Chongqing and a disastrous factory job, Mei soon heads out for London and a marriage to an older man where her entrapment begins anew.
About the Director: Xiaolu Guo
Xiaolu is a novelist and filmmaker. She studied at the Beijing Film Academy and now lives between England, Paris and Beijing.
Her first feature How Is Your Fish Today? was in the Official Selection at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and received the Grand Jury Prize at the 2007 Créteil International Women Film Festival in Paris. Her documentary We Went to Wonderland (2008) was selected for the New Directors/New Films series at the MoMA/Lincoln Center in New York in 2008.
She, A Chinese has won The Golden Leopard at Locarno Film Festival 2009
