This Woman(HKAFF2023)

Special Jury Award and ZONTA Award, Visions du Réel
First Frame Film of the Year, FIRST International Film Festival

Ordinary work-mum Li Hehe loses her 10-year job in Beijing, and decides to return to her hometown in search of a brighter future. While struggling to start a new life, her values on marriage, family and motherhood have taken a sharp turn, and she begins to challenge the meaning of traditional family and roles of females. New director Alan Zhang’s first feature profoundly questions the role of women in contemporary Chinese society. To what obligations and expectations are they subjected, and how can they free themselves from these constraints?