Confucian Dream
Project Name: Confucian Dream
Language: China/Chinese/2019
Type / theme: Documentary/82 mins
Director: Mijie Li
Business Demand: Financing, Theatrical Distribution, Internet Distribution
Synopsis of the story: At 6 Am, young mother Chaoyan, is reading the Analects of Confucius with her four-year-old son, Chenchen. She feels that learning the wisdom of Confucius with her son has brought them closer to each other. In Chaoyan’s expectation, learning Confucian culture with her family, makes their lives more harmonious, but she only to finds their efforts push the family to the edge of breakdown… How will Chaoyan's confusion lead to her growth? What does the ancient wisdom of "harmony without uniformity" inspire this modern family?