Filmmaker Ash Mayfair is scheduled to be present.
Ash Mayfair Presents: Dead Pigs
Series: Ash Mayfair: Unwavering Empathy, International Art House Series, Running the Screen: Directed by Women
A mysterious stream of pig carcasses floats silently toward China’s populous economic hub, Shanghai. As authorities struggle to explain the phenomenon, a down-and-out pig farmer with a youthful heart struggles to make ends meet, while an upwardly mobile landowner fights gentrification against an American expat seeking a piece of the Chinese dream. Meanwhile, a romantic busboy hides his job from his father, while a rich, young woman struggles to find her independence. Like a mosaic, their stories intersect and converge in a showdown between human and machine, past and future, brother and sister. Dead Pigs won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Contains mature content.
