March 08, 2021
By Jolanta Lion jola(through)andrew.cmu.edu Media Inquiries
Stacy Kish skish(through)cmu.edu So Long, My Son, the next title in the Carnegie Mellon University s International Film Festival s Faces of Home series, is a deep and moving generational drama from visionary Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai that chronicles dramatic changes in the lives of two families living under China s one-child policy.
The film begins in the mid-1980s, following two close families working together in a factory in northern China. Their sons are born on the same day, as if linked by destiny. Then a tragic accident pulls the families apart. As China s dramatic social transformation generates increasing inequalities, they follow different paths both geographically and financially. Moving backwards and forwards from the accident through four decades of Chinese history, accla