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A dying Chinese man returns to his estranged wife to ask permission to see his son for the last time. When his wife refuses, he has to resort to desperate measures…
Director: Lab Ky Mo
Overview
A dying Chinese man, Jack, returns to his estranged wife to ask permission to see his son for the last time. When his wife refuses, Jack has to resort to desperate measures…
A short film produced by B3 Media & BBC Writersroom as part of Cineast Digital Shorts programme, which aimed to develop and produce films from a new wave of emerging talent in the UK’s East and Southeast Asian diaspora. The scheme's Executive Producers were Marc Boothe & Kate Rowland.
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