Spring Tide
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Three generations of women in modern China. Guo, a journalist trying to write interventionist reportages under the increasing unfavorable circumstances, still living in her family home. Her daughter, entering the era of adolescence. And her mother, who makes up for the years of hardships and dysfunctional relationship in her autumn years, not missing any opportunity to criticize her adult daughter and her life choices.
A plot thick with emotion, a phenomenal psychology, and an incredibly realistic portrait of toxic bonds that cannot be broken, even though they leave deep wounds. Lina Yang, director and documentary filmmaker, has a unique talent for observation – her heroines are very ambiguous, filled with vices as well as the strength necessary to survive under adverse circumstances and to live on their own terms.
Yang puts a lot of powerful observations about intergenerational relations in modern China into the dynamic family triangle – the parents who survived the Cultural Revolution and the times of the deepest economic hardships, the generation of the 1970s and 1980s that grew up in the times of the rapid modernization, and the so-called youth of today, equipped with completely new opportunities, but also the baggage of family traumas they are not fully aware of.
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Jagoda Murczyńska
Lina Yang
Born in China in 1972, graduate of the Art Academy of the People's Liberation Army. As a dancer, she performed in theater plays and movies, including Jia Zhang-ke's "Platform." In the late 1990s, she started working as an independent documentary filmmaker. Her films, showing the changes in the Chinese society, gained acclaim at numerous festivals. In 2013, she made her first feature film "Longing for the Rain" (7th Five Flavours).
