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Year By Year (2024)

Year By Year (2024)

Documentary

Across the rural Jiangxi province and metropolitan streets of Shanghai, generations reconsider love, marriage and the future.

Release Date: 2024, July 10
Directors: Wan Kun
Countries: China, United Kingdom
Production: Liverpool John Moores University Productions, Organistic

Overview:

Made during an exchange trip to China, Year By Year is a short documentary exploring changing attitudes towards marriage, children and traditional values. Moving between Shanghai and the rural farmland surrounding it, the film reflects on how place, generation and culture shape ideas of family, responsibility and the future.

Keywords:

marriage calm shanghai tradition generations modernisation rural china traditional marriage urban vs rural chinese tradition generational change