BELOVED

2022, short. Writer.

 2004, Yongjia, China. The One-Child-Policy presses heavily on families. Honour, inheritance, lineage, tradition are concepts that reside in woman' greatest duty: to give birth to a male child. BELOVED tells the story of a 9-months pregnant woman who learns that she is having a baby girl yet again after two abortions. To escape the shame, her mother-in-law and her embark on a journey to abandon the unborn daughter in exchange for a baby boy that is not her own.

(An AFI Conservatory production exercise.)