Hanxiong Bo
China
2020
16
minutes
Chinese
spoken
English
subtitles
China’s one-child policy left many devastating effects. To protect their son, Yan’s family hid his sister in the countryside and disguised Yan as a girl. Later in life, Yan is treated as an outcast by the townspeople and struggles in a conservative world in which his gender is thought to be confusing. He longs to see his sister and the only escape from this suffocating social order is drifting in his father’s old taxi.
Themes: population control, gender, family
Advisory: Bullying; a gang of teens beat up on one boy
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