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Daughter's Daughter
In Huang Xi's Golden Horse Award-winning triumph, Sylvia Chang delivers a career-defining performance as a mother haunted by an unthinkable decision. Decades ago, teenage Jin Aixia (Chang) gave her newborn Emma (Karena Lam) to strangers, keeping only second daughter Zuer (Eugenie Liu). When estranged sisters learn of each other, tragedy strikes—Zuer dies pursuing motherhood in New York, leaving behind a frozen promise of life. Now Jin cradles her daughter's embryo and her own buried grief, conjuring the ghost of the child she abandoned. Produced with Hou Hsiao-hsien, this searing three-generation portrait asks: Can the child who was never born redeem the child who was given away?
Director: Huang Xi
Cast: Sylvia Chang, Karena Lam, Eugenie Liu
Languages: Mandarin and English with English subtitles
2024; 126 min.