Tuesday May 12 | 8:00 PM | screening room Warszawa
Meeting with the director of the film " Two mountains weighing down my chest"
after the screening of TWO MOUNTAINS WEIGHING DOWN MY CHEST, dir. Viv Li
A 32-year-old Chinese aspiring artist, raised in Beijing in the 1990s and now living in Berlin, exists between two completely different worlds: the alternative and progressive scene of the German capital and the traditional, conservative life of her family in China. Every return home forces her to redefine her identity, ambitions, and relationships. The film, with lightness and self‑irony, depicts the experience of cultural “whiplash” – the constant adjustment to conflicting norms, expectations, and values imposed by East and West. The titular “two mountains” serve as a metaphor for the weight of these opposing pressures: freedom, individualism, and artistic experimentation on one side, tradition, family, and loyalty to her roots on the other.
Moderator:
Marcin Mindykowski – a cultural journalist and film critic based in the Tri-City. He has worked for ‘Dziennik Bałtycki’, ‘Radio Gdańsk’, Polish Radio Programme II and the Tri-City edition of ‘Gazeta Wyborcza’. He has also published articles in ‘Kino’, ‘Ekrany’ and ‘Jazz Forum’.
