About this event
FilmShanghai Daughter
上海女儿
Agnis SHEN Zhongmin
94 min
2026
Fiction
Mandarin Chinese, Dǎi Language
English Subtitles
Ming (LIANG Cuishan), a woman from Shanghai, travels alone to a rubber plantation in Xishuangbanna, where her late father was sent during the Down to the Countryside Movement. She hopes to find two people who once knew him, only to learn they have long since died. As the old production-team houses face demolition, mining and modern agriculture are quietly transforming the land. A farm officer, rural doctor, Dai elder, rubber tapper, young ecologist, and a mysterious descendant of a sent-down youth enter Mings journey one by one. Through their stories, ancient legends, private memories, and traces of history intertwine, drawing her deeper into the tropical forest.
Director
Filmmaker and writer Agnis SHEN Zhongmin (b. 1985, Shanghai, China) graduated from Tongji University with a degree in Film Directing and Screenwriting. She is the author of short story collections Notes on Shanghai Geography, Deep Simulator, and A Traveler’s Desire. She previously worked as a journalist and newspaper editor at The Bund, and later turned to cross boundary practice in contemporary art, literature and film. Shanghai Daughter is her debut film, which was selected for WIP section of SIFF PROJECT at Shanghai International Film Festival in 2025, and premiered at the 76th Berlinale. Her work has long focused on the relationship between internal consciousness and external phenomenal world.