Sinopsis
Alus is a Mongolian musician that cannot bear to see his mother, who suffers from Alzheimer’s, living like a captive in his brother’s city apartment, so he decides to take her back to the grassland, the home she yearns for. As his mother’s condition worsens Alus tries to stop her from getting lost by tying her to him with a rope. The rope is like an umbilical cord that reconnects him to her and his native culture. Alus gradually comes to terms with his mother’s traditional Mongolian approach to life and death to eventually realize that the rope is just another form of captivity.
Qiao Sixue was born in Inner Mongolia, China. After graduating at the end of 2015 from the International Institute of Image and Sound 3IS in Paris, she worked at the company KOI Films in Paris and participated in dozens of short films. “The Cord of Life” is her first feature film. The project was selected at the HAF Film Lab 2019 (Hong Kong), winning in 2022 the Special Prize at the Project Market of the Beijing International Film Festival.
Director: Qiao Sixue (Inner Mongolia)
Genre: Fiction
Country of production: China
Year of production: 2022
Running time: 96’
Language: Chinese. With Spanish subtitles.
Cast: Badma, Yider
Production: Liu Hui, Hu Jing
Screenwriter: Qiao Sixue
Director of photography: Cao Yu
Production companies: Bad Rabbit (Shanghai) Pictures Co
International sales: Parallax Films
Festival/Awards Selected at Beijing Student Film Festival, Shanghai International Film Festival, Sichuan TV Festival, Tokyo International Film Festival, Bangkok World Film Festival, Hainan International Film Festival
Premiere in Madrid.
