Brief History of a Family

Sunday 9th March 5pm

Synopsis

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

“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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