Heidi in China
2020•1h 22m•8.0•Released
Documentary
In 1946, Heidi is entrusted to a Swiss family by her father. He will never come back for her. Today, François Yang questions his mother about her past. What follows is a journey to China, a quest to reconstruct memory. Through contact with her brothers and sister, Heidi measures the extent of the drama experienced by her family that remained in China, persecuted by the Communist Party.
Director
François Yang
Writer
François Yang
Languages
English, Cantonese, French
Studio
Box Productions
Production
Company
Box Productions
Company
Gloria Films
Recommended
7.1
Stories We Tell
2012
7.2
180° South
2010
7.5
Cuba and the Cameraman
2017
7.6
To Kill a Tiger
2023
7
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear
2022
8
My Mom Jayne
2025
6.6
The Kid Stays in the Picture
2002
6.9
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013
6.1
South of the Border
2009
6.5
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
2019
7.8
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
6.4
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
2017
6.9
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
2009
7
Girl Rising
2013
8.3
S4: The Bob Lazar Story
2026
8.5
No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad
2013
7.1
Unknown: Cave of Bones
2023
7.6
Night Will Fall
2014
7.6
35 Up
1991
7.9
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
Similar Movies
What We Talk About When We Talk About Football
2017
Mother
2022
ODESSA STEPS 2022
2022
The Garden
2010
New Castle
2010
5.3
A Yangtze Landscape
2017
7.4
I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story
2015
La reserva del silencio
2025
8
Fruit Farm
2025
THE LONGWANG CHRONICLES: A YEAR OF LIFES IN A CHINESE VILLAGE
2009
On the Road
2010
Silent Landscape
2020
Chenjiayong
2020
6
Single Woman
2019
Riverbed
2016
Koudelka
2015
Preachers
2014
Gas
2010
Classmates
2009
Sanlidong
2007