Shanghai Women

Directed by Peng Xiaolian

With Lü Liping, Sun Haiying, Zheng Zhenyao, Zhou Wenqian and Hu Ge

After Women’s Story, Peng returns to the most straightforward representation of women’s issues in Shanghai Women, a film about three rural women. As the first work in Peng’s Shanghai Trilogy, Shanghai Women describes the problem that women encounter trying to secure urban (residential) space through the story of women from three generations.