Keswick Film Festival

Sunday 9th March 5:00 PM - Alhambra

Brief History of a Family

Director: Jianjie Lin Country: China
Cert: 15 Year: 2014 Length: 99 mins
2025 Festival
Brief History of a Family

Audience Reaction

Score: 60.48% Attendance: 120

Links

  • More details on this film at the Internet Movie Database

A middle-class family's fate becomes intertwined with their only son's enigmatic new friend in post one-child policy China, putting unspoken secrets, unmet expectations, and untended emotions under the microscope.

Thanks to Blue Finch Films

Critics

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Brief History of a Family takes the world's relentless addiction to self-actualization to one of its darkest implications then: Why let anything, including children, interfere with the pursuit of your best life? And what if the children are okay with that?
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