To Live to Sing (2019)

Drama • 105 minutes

Starring: Zhao Xiaoli Gan Guidan Yan Xihu Yan Huanghe Deng Xiurong Liu Min Li Tangrong Su Guangjin and others.

Director: Johnny Ma Writer: Johnny Ma Director of Photography: Matthias Delvaux Producer: Jing Wang Wu Xian Jian Editor: Ana Godoy Original Music Composer: Jimin Kim Jongho You

Released • November 20, 2019

Zhao Li manages a Sichuan Opera troupe that lives and performs together in a rundown theatre in the outskirts of Chengdu. When she receives an order of demolition, she hides the news, fearing that this could spell their end. Secretly, she wouldn’t mind stopping since their life has become harder over the years. But what else can she do? She also worries that her niece Dan Dan, their star, will leave them for a better future in the city. To keep her troupe “family” together, Zhao Li begins a search for a new theatre for them to both sing and live in. As she struggles with bureaucracy,…