“All About My Sisters” has secured distribution ahead of its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival. A press release announced that Icarus Films snagged North American rights to Qiong Wang’s documentary about her family with plans for a theatrical release followed by home entertainment rollout.
Described as a “complex portrait of her family reckoning with the lasting impact of China’s one-child policy,” “All About My Sisters” marks Wang’s feature doc debut. “After giving birth to two daughters, Qiong’s parents were desperate for a boy. When they learned that they were pregnant with a third daughter, the couple embarked on a path that would affect their family for generations to come,” the film’s synopsis details. “Filming for more than seven years, Ms. Wang courageously investigates her family’s shocking history. Intimate, powerful interviews with her parents and siblings and a keen eye for detail create a never-before-seen view of the one-child policy at its peak and the echoes that still haunt a family and their community today.”
Wang is currently teaching and studying at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Check out a clip from “All About My Sisters” below. The New York Film Festival runs from September 24-October 10. Other films set to screen include “Bergman Island,” Mia Hansen-Løve’s portrait of an American couple who visit a Swedish island to work on screenplays for their respective upcoming films, and “Neptune Frost,” a sci-fi punk musical from Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams.
