Canada Golden Maple International Film Festival      2023 Vancouver

Gu Po

Gu Po

Genre
Documentary
Region
China
Director
Yufei Yang

The documentary depicts the life of Liu Yunxiang, an 80-year-old nun, living in the rural abstinence hall in Meizhou, Guangdong Province, where Hakka people clusters. By recording the one year’s daily life of Liu Yunxiang, during which she witnessed the abstinence hall collapsing and reconstruction, the documentary tries to disclose her religious faith and her social interaction as a nun living the single life all her life, revealing the traditions and religious faith in the region, as well as how Hakka women struggle to get their freedom through religious practice. Through an oral history of hers, the documentary tries to show the fate of Hakka women in history, their strong power of life, rich spiritual world and the attitude about death and loneliness.- This video is subject to the 2017 Canada Golden Maple film festival screening and selection. Any reproduction or republication of this video is expressly prohibited.

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