Stronger Than Fiction Film Festival, All About My Sisters! 2001

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This complex, ambitious and affecting portrait of a family fractured by the One Child Policy asks how documentary can help us deal with the ghosts of the past.

At the height of the One Child Policy in China, many baby girls were unwanted. Twenty years ago, when film director Wang Qiong's parents, who were desperate for a boy, learned that they were instead expecting another daughter, they made a series of decisions that have haunted the family ever since.

In a quest to understand and bring healing, 22 year old Qiong picked up her camera and began exploring her fractured family with unflinching honesty. At the centre of the film is her sister Jin, who remains profoundly affected by her parents' abandonment of her as a baby. Qiong gradually teases out the full story of Jin's birth and childhood, a subject that nobody has been able to talk about for years.

Filming over the course of seven years, Qiong captures moments of vulnerability, anguish and joy with insight and delicate artistry, connecting us with the universal desire for love and belonging that lies beneath her family's difficult history.

Runtime 174 mins
Classification CTC (Unclassified 15+)
Language Chinese with English Subtitles

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