Wisdom Tooth

Panorama

"One of the year’s most remarkable debuts"

VARIETY
  • Archive - Festival 36
  • Director: Liang Ming
  • China 2019
  • 104 minutes
  • Mandarin
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

Gu Xi faces an uncertain future. Her job as a hotel maid is threatened because of her status as an undocumented citizen and her relationship with her brother Gu Liang - her only family - is unsettled by the arrival of a new girlfriend. Meanwhile, an oil spill taints the coastal waters of the nearby Yellow Sea and corruption seeps into the community of the small East China fishing town where Gu Xi and her brother scrape a living.

“Slippery and surprising, full of odd details and insights, and leaching significant visual and thematic texture from its unusual setting, Liang Ming’s Wisdom Tooth must be one of the year’s most remarkable debuts.” - Jessica Kiang, Variety.

Feature Debut


  • Director Liang Ming
  • Production Sun Yang, Sean Chen
  • Script Liang Ming
  • Cinematography He Shan
  • Editing Jolin Zhu
  • Music Ding Ke
  • Festivals Rotterdam, Göteborg, Macao
  • Actors Xingchen Lyu, Wu Xiaoling, Wang Jiajia, Wang Weishen , Ta Hai, Chen Yongzhong
  • Source Parallax Films, Beijing