A Family Tour
(Zi You Xing)
Year: 2018
Country:
TAIWAN, HONG KONG, SINGAPORE, MALAYSIA
Language:
Mandarin, Taiwanese, Cantonese
Run Time:
107 minutes
Yang Shu, a Chinese filmmaker, has been living in exile in Hong Kong for the last five years. Although her latest film has been banned in China due to its negative tone towards the Chinese government, she and her family travel to Taiwan to present it at a local film festival. The trip is timely because Yang Shu’s ailing mother, Chen, who still lives on mainland China, is aboard a sightseeing tour of Taiwan. To keep suspicions at bay, Yang Shu, her husband, and their three-year-old son discreetly follow the massive tour bus all over the island, pulling off at all the same tourist sites to make up for lost time with Chen. While Yang Shu longs to care for her aging mother the way she deserves, Chen insists on going home—a place her daughter cannot return. Based on the personal experiences of this film’s director, Ying Liang, A FAMILY TOUR portrays the heartbreaking struggles families face when our governments attempt to divide us. (In Mandarin, Taiwanese, and Cantonese with subtitles) —A.B.
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Sidebars
Pan-Asian Cinema
Strangers in a Strange Land
Competition
International Narrative Competition
Director
Ying Liang
Ying Liang, a Chinese independent filmmaker, was born in Shanghai. He studied in Beijing and Chongqing before settling down in the city of Zigong in Sichuan Province. He made his directorial debut in 1999, and since then, he has made four feature films and more than a dozen shorts.
Filmography
Taking Father Home (2005) – CIFF31, The Other Half (2006), Good Cats (2008), When Night Falls (2012) – CIFF37, A FAMILY TOUR (2018)
Producers
Jeremy Chua, C. Melanopterus, Tseng Wen Chen, Lee Shuping
Screenwriting
Chan Wai, 33, Ying Liang
Cinematography
Otsuka Ryuji
Editing
Liu Xue Ying
Principal Cast
Gong Zhe, Nai An, Pete Teo, Tham Xin Yue
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