Hidden Letters (16+)
“Silver Nanook” for discovery of new subjects and new heroes
Audience Award
Audience Award
China, Germany, Norway, United States, 2022, colour, 89 min.
Directors: Violet Du Feng , Zhao Qing
Directors: Violet Du Feng , Zhao Qing
Two Chinese millennial women must save an ancient secret treasure from falling into the
wrong hands, but don’t expect it will save them too.
Women in China were historically forced into oppressive marriages and forbidden to read or write by their households for thousands of years. To cope, they developed and shared a secret language among themselves called Nushu. Written in poems or songs with bamboo pens on paper-folded fans and handkerchiefs, these hidden letters bonded generations of Chinese women in a clandestine support system of sisterhood, hope and survival.
wrong hands, but don’t expect it will save them too.
Women in China were historically forced into oppressive marriages and forbidden to read or write by their households for thousands of years. To cope, they developed and shared a secret language among themselves called Nushu. Written in poems or songs with bamboo pens on paper-folded fans and handkerchiefs, these hidden letters bonded generations of Chinese women in a clandestine support system of sisterhood, hope and survival.
Violet Du Feng
Violet Du Feng
is a documentary filmmaker and a 2018 Sundance Creative Producing Fellow. She started her career as a co-producer on the 2007 award-winning “Nanking”. She is the consulting programmer of Shanghai International Film Festival.
FILMOGRAPHY
Harbor from the Holocaust, 2020; Hidden Letters, 2022.
Zhao Qing
Zhao Qing
is the director of the award-winning “Please Remember Me”. She started her career at Shanghai Media Group in 1991, where she directed and produced many television documentaries affiliated to the Documentary Channel of SMG. She directed and hosted several popular TV documentary programs.
FILMOGRAPHY
Please Remember Me, 2015; Hidden Letters, 2022.
“Silver Nanook” for discovery of new subjects and new heroes
Audience Award
Audience Award
China, Germany, Norway, United States, 2022, colour, 89 min.
Directors: Violet Du Feng , Zhao Qing
Directors: Violet Du Feng , Zhao Qing
Two Chinese millennial women must save an ancient secret treasure from falling into the
wrong hands, but don’t expect it will save them too.
Women in China were historically forced into oppressive marriages and forbidden to read or write by their households for thousands of years. To cope, they developed and shared a secret language among themselves called Nushu. Written in poems or songs with bamboo pens on paper-folded fans and handkerchiefs, these hidden letters bonded generations of Chinese women in a clandestine support system of sisterhood, hope and survival.
wrong hands, but don’t expect it will save them too.
Women in China were historically forced into oppressive marriages and forbidden to read or write by their households for thousands of years. To cope, they developed and shared a secret language among themselves called Nushu. Written in poems or songs with bamboo pens on paper-folded fans and handkerchiefs, these hidden letters bonded generations of Chinese women in a clandestine support system of sisterhood, hope and survival.