Out of Competition – Special Screening: “He Fengming, Chronicle of a Chinese Woman” by Wang Bing

Presented Out of Competition, He Fengming, Chronicle of a Chinese Woman is one of the features on the Special Screening program of this 60th anniversary of the Festival. Director
Wang Bing, who made a name for himself with the trilogy West of the Rails, explores his country’s past through Fengming’s story, retracing thirty years of political
upheaval.

“It was in 1995 that I first met He Fengming,” director Wang Bing told us. “I learned how she and her family, and many others with destinies similar to her own,
lived through the successive political movements that swept China over those long years. Those memories cannot fade, but live in her today, like a specter constantly returning to take us back to
that time of extremism and terror, filling me with a growing anxiety.”