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CONFUCIAN DREAM

By Mijie LI

KARLOVY VARY INT'L FILM FESTIVAL - as FEST

Documentary - Completed 2019

An aimless young wife and mother in China discovers Confucianism and becomes a zealous convert, intent on planting a seed in her impressionable four-year-old and resistant husband—but will her new values die on the vine?

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Karlovy Vary IFF 2019

Documentary Films - Competition DOCUMENTARY SPECIAL JURY PRIZE

Hot Docs 2019

World Documentary

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- CHINA, USA
- Languages
- MANDARIN
- Duration
- 86 mn
- Director(s)
- Mijie LI
- ISAN
- 0000-0005-8A94-0000-D-0000-0000-Z
- Producer(s)
- Mijie LI (Soul Wish Films), Violet FENG (Fish + Bear Pictures), Betsy TSAI (Betsy Tsai), Jeff REICHERT (Jeff Reichert )
- Synopsis
- Chaoyan, a young wife and mother, discovers the ancient teachings of Confucianism and hopes they will restore balance, respect and morality to her home. She becomes a zealous convert and involves her impressionable four-year-old son in her rigorous routine of chanting daily mantras. Little Chen may not yet understand the recitations’ meanings, but mom is confident she’s planting a seed for the future. Chaoyan’s husband, Mei, finds their study schedule excessive, but tolerates it until she proposes that Chen attend a year-round Confucian school. While Confucianism’s primary purpose is to instil peace and harmony, the opposite occurs between this husband and wife as their beliefs clash and their arguments escalate. A gripping portrait of marital and parental crisis, Confucian Dream demonstrates the devastating effects of misplacing your expectations of a spouse onto a child.

CONFUCIAN DREAM

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