HEIDI EN CHINE

HEIDI IN CHINA

By François YANG

BOX PRODUCTIONS - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2019

My mother meets her estranged family in China in order to understand the harsh life she has escaped.

Festivals
& Awards

Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur 2020
Official Competition
visions du reel 2020
National Competition
Solothurner Filmtage 2021
Les Écrans de Chine Festival Européen de documentaires Chinois 2021
Jury's prize
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • SWITZERLAND, FRANCE
    • Languages
    • FRENCH
    • Duration
    • 82 mn
    • Director(s)
    • François YANG
    • Writer(s)
    • François YANG
    • Producer(s)
    • Elodie BRUNNER (BOX PRODUCTIONS), Elena TATTI (BOX PRODUCTIONS), Thierry SPICHER (BOX PRODUCTIONS), Maud HUYNH (GLORIA FILMS)
    • Synopsis
    • In 1946, my Chinese grandfather entrusted my mother to a Swiss family. But he never came to take her back. Today, my mother, 79, goes back to China to uncover a painful past with her estranged relatives, in order to understand the life she has not lived there. She discovers the sequels of the communist regime, and the painful history she has escaped.