Sylvia Chang Stars in ‘Daughter’s Daughter’ Huang Xi’s Drama on Motherhood and Loss | Trailer

Huang Xi’s intergenerational drama Daughter’s Daughter is a portrait of motherhood shaped by grief and memory. Sylvia Chang stars as a mother who loses her daughter in an accident and has to make decisions about a frozen embryo she left behind.

Also starring in the movie are Karena Lam, Eugenie Liu, and Winston Chao.

Daughter’s Daughter premiered at Toronto International Film Festival, then screened at the Tokyo International Film Festival and will open in theaters starting with an exclusive one-week theatrical run in New York at Metrograph on November 21.

Here’s the synopsis: Chang’s Jin Aixia is the middle-aged mother of two adult daughters – one, Fan Zuer (Eugenie Liu), raised by her in Taipei, the other, Emma (Karena Lam), given up for adoption and raised in New York – who, after Fan’s tragic death, finds herself the legal guardian of the embryo that her daughter, in the midst of planning for a pregnancy via in vitro fertilization, had left behind.

In an interview, Xi says, “I think mother daughter relationships are very intricate and interesting they have this love hate tug of war all the time that interest me to write and drives me to write a lot.”

In their review, IndieWire wrote, “The film elegantly explores the blurred lines between selflessness and selfishness, through a tale of modern motherhood that poses complex questions of responsibility when faced with sorrow: who is a mother, especially one who has often questioned her own parenting, to decide what to do with her deceased daughter’s unborn child?”

Watch the trailer for Daughter’s Daughter above.