Year By Year

Made during an exchange trip to China, Year By Year is a short documentary exploring changing attitudes towards marriage, children and traditional values. Moving between Shanghai and the rural farmland surrounding it, the film reflects on how place, generation and culture shape ideas of family, responsibility and the future.

• tradition
• marriage
• modernisation
• calm
• generations
• shanghai
• rural china
• traditional marriage
• urban vs rural
• chinese tradition
• generational change