THE SILK AND THE FLAME

By Jordan SCHIELE

NOISE FILM & TV - as PROMO

Family - Completed 2018

Yao struggles to fulfill his father's dying wish to marry and continue the family's bloodline. He travels from Beijing to his rural hometown for Chinese New Year, where he's reunited with his mother, who became deaf after a medical accident, and father, who requires a wheelchair and no long speaks.

Festivals
& Awards

BFI Flare 2019
Bodies
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Family, Social issues, Documentary
    • Countries
    • CHINA, USA
    • Languages
    • MANDARIN, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 87 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Jordan SCHIELE
    • Synopsis
    • Yao is 40, single and on his way home for Lunar New Year. His paralysed father has taken a vow of silence and his mother is a deaf mute who lost her hearing as a child. Despite this, Yao’s family home is anything but quiet: his fiery mother is frustrated by her limited circumstances and his father’s helplessness is the source of much anxiety. Ever dutiful, Yao politely nods as his family implores him to marry a pretty woman. But behind the camera is a male foreigner whose presence speaks volumes about Yao’s true passion. Shot in crisp black and white, The Silk and the Flame is an intimate look at modern China, where Confucian values remain the bedrock of family life.