THE CORD OF LIFE
脐带
CHINA | 2022 | Drama | 96min | Debut Feature
Director: QIAO Sixue
Screenwriter: QIAO Sixue
Executive Producers: CAO Yu, YAO Chen
Producers: LIU Hui, HU Jing
Starring: Badma, Yider
导演:乔思雪
编剧:乔思雪
监制:曹郁、姚晨
制片:刘辉、胡婧
演员:巴德玛、伊德尔
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…
Festival&Award
35th Tokyo International Film Festival
Asian Future Competition
Hainan Island International Film Festival 2022
Competition
World Film Festival of Bangkok 2022
Competition
Fund&Grant
The Hong Kong – Asia Financing Forum (HAF)
WIP 2022
HAF Film Lab 2019
Special Prize at the Project Market of Beijing International Film Festival 2022
QIAO Sixue
QIAO Sixue was born in Inner Mongolia, China. After graduating from 3IS Ecoles & Formations d'audiovisuel à Paris de la France Academy, at the end of 2015, she worked at KOI Films Company in Paris and participated in dozens of short films.
THE CORD OF LIFE is her debut feature.