HER STORY (HAO DONG XI), 2024

China | DCP, Color, 123’ |Mandarin
Director: Shao Yihui
Cast: Jia Song, Elane Zhong, Zhang Yu

In Shanghai, Wang Tiemei, a single mother who has just lost her job, moves to a new apartment with her daughter. When she befriends her emotionally fragile neighbor, Xiao Ye, an unexpected intimacy develops between them. As Tiemei faces her ex-husband and her own idealized image of womanhood, Xiao Ye begins to confront her emotional emptiness. Balancing melodrama and humor, Her Story became a domestic box-office hit and is regarded as a timely portrayal of female perspective and solidarity in contemporary Chinese cinema.