“The Back-flow Rain”
SAFF 2021 Award Winner
Legend has it that city Sa witnesses a back-flow rain falling from the ground to the sky on every summer solstice. The girl’s parents failed to look for the rain when they were young. Later, her mother vanished with the broken marriage, leaving an anthology of Xiao Hong, a feminism writer in China, which was the only clue for the girl to search for her mother. Then the girl set out on a journey to find her mother…
Director Biography
A poet and a writer who graduated from the Communication University of Zhejiang in China in 2021.
Now she is studying film directing in The University of Edinburgh.
Director’s Statement
This work is my semi-autobiography and what I want to express most through film. I try to uncover my youth trauma in a tender way by creating a poetic atmosphere with a tragic story, a film-poem-like audio-visual language, and some metaphorical designs.
Because of my childhood experiences, all my films in my undergraduate studies are focused on the issue of children born in unstable environments, which is caused by a lack of material and education, and distorted views on reproduction of parents that they treat their children as a bond to strengthen their relationship rather than as an independent human being. The erratic growth environment creates children, like me, who lost in a crack of the adult world without self-identity.