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THE CORD OF LIFE

QI DAI

By Sixue QIAO

PARALLAX FILMS - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2022

Alus is a nomadic electronic musician, he accompanies his mother who has Alzheimer's disease back to the grassland to spend her last days together.

Tokyo - TiffCom 2022

Asian Future

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Drama, Family
- Countries
- CHINA
- Languages
- MONGOLE
- Duration
- 96 mn
- Director(s)
- Sixue QIAO
- Writer(s)
- Sixue QIAO
- Cast
- Badma , Yider
- Producer(s)
- Hui LIU (Bad Rabbit (Shanghai) Pictures Co., Ltd.), Jing HU (Bad Rabbit (Shanghai) Pictures Co., Ltd.)
- Synopsis
- Alus is a Mongolian electronic musician confused about what he wants in life. He also cannot bear to see his mother, who suffers from Alzheimer’s, living like a captive in his brother’s city apartment, so he decides to take her back to the grassland in search of the home she yearns for.
  
  As his mother’s condition worsens Alus tries to stop her from getting lost by tying his mother to him with a rope. The rope is like an umbilical cord that reconnects him to his mother’s thoughts, his hometown and his native culture.
  
  Alus gradually comes to terms with his mother’s traditional Mongolian approach to life and death and eventually realizes that the rope he has used to tie his mother to him is just another form of captivity.
  As his mother approaches her final days, he cuts the cord that binds them, setting her free and providing her with the love and dignity she truly needs. Meanwhile, Alus himself also gains a new lease of life.