Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2011) – Mandarin Film Screening

This film explores the parallel stories of seven-year-old girls Snow Flower and Lily in 19th century China, who had their feet bound at the same age and on the same day sealing their fates as laotongs, and their descendants Nina and Sophia who struggle to maintain their childhood friendship as busy adults in present day Shanghai.

What unfolds are two stories, generations apart, but everlasting in their universal notion of love, hope and friendship.

Mandarin with English subtitles.

A Kanopy film. Rate M.

Image: An audience seated in rows in a darkened room. Inset, promo image for the film Snow Flower and the Secret Fan shows a young Chinese woman holding a closed fan to her mouth. Film classification M.