My Grandmother Is an Egg

FILM INFO

Original Title

我的阿婆是一顆蛋

Year

2021

Film Status

Duration

9 min

THEME / GENRE

BIOGRAPHY / FAMILY / DOCUMENTARY

Director

CHANG Wu-ching

Producer

CHANG Wu-ching

Cast

Production Company

Aco Creative

Festivals & Awards

2021 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Official Selection – Nominated
2022 Flickerfest International Short Film Festival, Official Selection – Nominated
2021 Guanajuato International Film Festival, Official Selection – Nominated

Participation Goal

Festival Screening

My grandmother was a T’ung-yang-hsi. She has lived up to her fate. T’ung-yang-hsi is the traditional practice of pre-arranged marriage, selling a young girl to another family to be raised as a future daughter-in-law. This tradition has vanished for decades, but the patriarchal shadow still lingers. With interviews and research conducted in pre-production to accurately capture the historical context, the film aims to reflect on women’s oppression and struggle for freedom. As the metaphor of women in the film, eggs are a symbol of their reproductive role in a male-dominated society.

From microscopic to macroscopic, from personal witness to general phenomenon in society, audiences may glimpse long into the past, imagine these women’s situation in our own times, and look forward to striving for real gender equality in the future.

Egg is life per se. Eggs are fragile, but at the same time tough. My grandmother is an egg.

SALES CONTACT

Company

Contact

CHANG Wu-ching

Email

acochangart@gmail.com

Tel

Mobile

+886 988 082 086