MRS FANG

By Bing WANG

IDÉALE AUDIENCE GROUP - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2017

Fang Xiuying was a farm worker born in Huzhou, Fujian in 1948. For the last eight years of her life she suffered from Alzheimer’s.

Festivals
& Awards

Locarno 2017
Golden Leopard
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, HONG KONG (CHINA), GERMANY
    • Languages
    • MANDARIN
    • Duration
    • 86 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Bing WANG
    • Producer(s)
    • Pierre-Olivier BARDET (IDEALE AUDIENCE), Lihong KONG (WIL PRODUCTIONS), Hila PELEG (DOCUMENTA14)
    • Synopsis
    • Fang Xiuying was a farm worker born in Huzhou, Fujian in 1948. For the last eight years of her life she suffered from Alzheimer’s. By 2015 the symptoms were quite advanced. The film shows the feelings of a person nearing death, and the reality of her relatives’ and neighbours’ attitudes towards a person about to leave this life.