Tough
Overview
Some things can only be understood with maturity. New light is shed on childhood cultural misunderstandings when a Chinese mother and her British born daughter speak as adults for the first time.
- Production
- Kingston University London
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- Director
- Jennifer Zheng
- Producers
- Jennifer Zheng
- Composer
- K. Preston Merkley
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CinemaSerf
April 3, 2026
Filmmaker Jennifer Zheng was brought up in Belfast with English as her first language. Here she embarks on an animation-supported conversation with her mum about just how they both arrived at their current situation. The elder lady recalls how, at four years old, the cultural revolution in China saw her parents sent to re-education camps and them brought up in a Communist regime about which she has fairly fond memories. Moving to the UK opened up quite a few gaps between mother and daughter, not…