Long synopsis : At the age of 19, starting work as a cleaner in the local children’s hospital, Jiang Meng encounters a baby born with the same congenital defects she herself suffered from.  Faced with a barrage of high risk operations, the father has decided to refuse treatment and take the baby home with him – condemning his daughter to a certain death. Jiang Meng – who herself faced multiple operations with no certainty of survival, and who was herself abandoned by her parents – cannot accept such a decision.  She will stop at nothing to rescue this newborn girl who mirrors so closely who she once was. Executive produced by Hou Hsiao-hsien, and rich with uncompromising insights into attitudes to care and physical handicap in contemporary Chinese life, Liu Jie’s BABY is a tense, fast-paced and powerfully emotive story of a child balancing between life and death and a young woman whose only goal is to save her.

Cast

• Jingfei Guo, Hong Chi Lee, Yanjun Wang, Shaojun Zhu, Surong Yan, Yang Mi

Crew

• Producer(s): Shan Gao
• Director(s): Liu Jie
• Screenplay: Liu Jie
• DP: Florian J.E.Zinke
• Editing: William Cheung, Ching-Song Liao
• Original Music: Sida Guo
• Set Design: Feng Yuan
• Costume Designer: Yuan Yuan, Liu Yuan
• Sound Editor: Wu Shuyao, Tu Duu Chih

• Genre(s): Drama


• Production company: Nanjing Sino-Movie Media&Culture Co., Ltd, Beijing Culture, Zhejiang Hengdian Film Co. Ltd, 3C Films Co., Ltd
• Production date: 2018
• Duration: 96 min