Fang Xiu Ying: Mrs. Fang
by Wang Bing

JUN
7
Film screening | World premiere
8:30 pm
Gloria-Kino, Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 3, Kassel

Wang Bing, Fang Xiu Ying (Mrs. Fang), 2017, Hong Kong (PR China)/France, film still

World premiere of Fang Xiu Ying: Mrs. Fang (2017), Hong Kong (PR China)/France, 85 min.
Mandarin [English subtitles]

Fang Xiu Ying is sixty-seven years old and suffers from Alzheimer’s, and yet she slowly understands that her life is coming to an end. Taking place in a quiet village in southern China, Fang Xiu Ying deals with the feelings of a person nearing death, as well as the lives of her relatives and neighbors who gather around her to say their final goodbyes.

With introduction by Wang Bing, Emmanuel Burdeau, and Hila Peleg

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