Cai Chengjie

BEI FANG YI PIAN CANG MANG

China 2018 118’

THE WIDOWED WITCH
After losing her house and husband, rural woman Wang Erhao leads a stranded life with her ten-year-old brother-in-law in a modified “recreational vehicle”. She drives this “recreational vehicle” around different villages, and talks about her unknown past to her little brother-in-law along the way in retrospect of her life. In order to find a warm place to survive the cold winter, she pretends to be a shaman to rid villagers of evil spirits, and ironically, her juggled deceits often become real. However, she soon loses her power to people’s greed and apathy, and in meagre attempts of salvation, her life story eventually ends in tragedy and disillusionment.

Cai Chengjie
Born on February 12, 1980 in Pingquan, Hebei. He graduated from Shaanxi Technology University, and majored in Art Design. He worked as a TV show director in CCTV (China Central Television)’s CTV North. He also worked in CCTV-12’s The Columns Show. THE WIDOWED WITCH is his directorial debut.

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