BRIEF HISTORY OF A FAMILY
Director: JianJie lin
99 minutes. china, france, denmark, qatar. 2024. Language: Mandarin Chinese. Colour.
The screenings at the TRISKEL CORK and EYE CINEMA GALWAY will be followed by a Q&A with director Jianjie Lin.
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After a mysterious incident at high school, the lives of classmates Wei, an outgoing only boy from a ‘perfect’ middle-class family, and Shuo, a sharp-eyed introvert from a troubled background, become intertwined. Wei introduces Shuo to his father (a cell biologist) and mother (a former flight attendant), and Shuo gradually becomes part of the family, discovering the dynamics of their comfortable existence overshadowed by silent secrets. Chinese writer-director Jianjie Lin's precise and suspenseful debut feature, a psycho-thriller family drama, explores the one-child policy in contemporary China and reveals the psychological scars and repressed emotions of a family, and the social expectations and economic pressures of underlying Chinese society.
NOTES BY MARIE-PIERRE RICHARD
JIANJIE LIN
After graduating with a BA in bioinformatics, Jianjie Lin turned to filmmaking and studied at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. His short films A Visit (2015) and Gu (2017) screened successfully at international film festivals. Brief History of a Family (2024), his debut feature had its world premiere in Panorama Section at the Berlin International Film Festival 2024 and was presented in Official Competition at Sundance 2024.
Seán Breathnach
A filmmaker and lecturer from the west of Ireland, Seán Breathnach’s first feature Foscadh was chosen as Ireland's entry for Best International Film at the 94th Academy Awards; it also won Best First Feature at the 2021 Galway Film Fleadh, Best Director at the 2021 Newport Beach Film Festival, and Best Film at the Kimolos International Film Festival. His Screen Ireland funded short, Maidhm has screened in Europe, North America, and Asia. He has filmed a number of documentaries for TG4 and RTÉ. Seán lectures in Film at the University of Galway, where he teaches on modules in film production, screenwriting, and aesthetics.
Rebecca Daly
A writer-director known for her psychological mystery, The Other Side of Sleep (2011) and her award-winning drama Mammal (2016). She was raised in Hampstead Heath, West Sussex, and moved with her Irish family to Ireland when she was a teenager. After receiving a BA in Theatre and English and an MA in Film, Rebecca made two shorts films Joyriders and Hum. Both films were awarded at several festivals. The Other Side of Sleep was Rebecca’s debut feature (developed on the Cannes Cinéfondation Résidence du Festival 2008). She would go on to make the features, Mammal and Good Favour.
