HI, MOM

Now the second-highest grossing film in Chinese box office history, Hi, Mom was this Spring Festival’s unexpected hit. Written and directed Jia Ling, this emotional time-traveling comedy stars Jia as a fictionalized version of herself, transported back to 1981 after a car crash puts her mother in the hospital. There, Jia befriends her mother Li Huanying (Zhang Xiaofei) as a young woman, and witnesses Li’s life before marriage and motherhood. A tribute to the director’s own mother, who passed away in an accident when Jia was in college, this film will make audiences laugh and then cry.