FESTIVALS: * HOT DOCS- Toronto, Canada * Karlovy Vary * Antenna * Haifa * Astra Film Festival * China Screens * Minsk International Film Festival * Verzio Film Festival * GZDoc * Aswan International Woman Film Festival * Chai - China Documentary Film Festival * Dublin IFF * Glasgow Film Festival AWARDS: - Grand Jury Award - Aswan international Women Film Festival in Egypt - Best Documentary - Dublin International Film Festival - Best Global Impact China Documentary Award and - Best Feature Length Documentary Award and at GZDOC Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival - Independent Spirit Award - Los Angeles Chinese Film Festival - DOCUMENTARY SPECIAL JURY PRIZE - Karlovy Vary Film Festival 
- Grand Prize - China Screen |
CONFUCIAN DREAM
Chaoyan, a young wife and mother, discovers the ancient teachings of Confucianism and hopes they will restore balance, respect and morality to her home. She becomes a zealous convert and involves her impressionable four-year-old son in her rigorous routine of chanting daily mantras. Little Chen may not yet understand the recitations’ meanings, but mom is confident she’s planting a seed for the future. Chaoyan’s husband, Mei, finds their study schedule excessive, but tolerates it until she proposes that Chen attend a year-round Confucian school. While Confucianism’s primary purpose is to instil peace and harmony, the opposite occurs between this husband and wife as their beliefs clash and their arguments escalate. A gripping portrait of marital and parental crisis, Confucian Dream demonstrates the devastating effects of misplacing your expectations of a spouse onto a child. REVIEW "With great sensitivity, Confucian Dream presents the viewer with the specific outcome of a woman’s conversion, but at its heart, it explores universal truths about relationships." - by Chelsea Phillips-Carr, Point of View Magazine, (Hot Docs 2019]strong>PRESS PHOTOS 
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