Naihe

Closing film of Hong Kong Salento International Film Festival "Naihe" is Chinese director Luo Bin's first literary film. He explained the reason for constructing the story via email: "I started with "Naihe" because I wanted the story to be about the choice 'between life and death.' In Chinese culture, we all have a consensus that once you get through Naihe, The river is the afterlife, and it is impossible to wake up. All choices about life and death can only be made by the Naihe River. Therefore, the Naihe River is the key node between life and death, because in traditional Chinese culture, everything is in the cycle of cause and effect..." "Naihe" tells the story of three generations of a family - Qiangqiang who was in a car accident and became a vegetative state, Xinxin, an abandoned baby who was sent to a hospice care center, and Yingying, a rebellious girl who returned to the village from the city and was raped by gangsters. "If you sort it out carefully, you will find that the different attitudes of these three generations towards the choice of 'life and death' have changed. It is for this reason that we feel hope and despair. The children in the three lines are not only the objects 'chosen' in the choices of the previous generation, but also the people of their own generation who make the 'choice'. They will have a huge influence on the next generation."