Aftershock
Film - Focus on the Far East Filmfest 2011

Aftershock

Directed by Xiaogang Feng

Info

Director: Xiaogang Feng
Section: Focus on the Far East
Country: China
Year: 2010
OT: TANGSHAN DADIZHEN
Language: Mandarin
Cast: Xu Fan, Jingchu Zhang, Li Chen, Zi-feng Zhang, Jiajun Zhang
18+ (no age rating)

Logline

Aftershock

Tangshan, 1976. Two seven-year-old twin children are buried under the rubble of a devastating earthquake. The rescue team explains to their mother, Li Yuanni, that freeing either child will almost certainly result in the death of the other. Forced to make the most difficult decision of her life, she finally chooses to save her son Fang Da, the male twin. Li Yuanni has no idea that her decision is overheard by her daughter Fang Deng, the female twin. Although she has been left behind as dead, the little girl miraculously survives for several more days before being pulled clear by another rescue team who believe that she is simply a corpse. She wakes up in the pouring rain next to the dead body of her father...

Meet the director

Xiaogang Feng