WANG Bing's San zimei (Three Sisters) has won the Best Film award (Grande Prémio Cidade de Lisboa) at DocLisboa.

Following its Orizzonti's Best Film Award in Venice in September, the film went on to travel to Toronto IFF, Vancouver IFF, Busan IFF, Montreal's Cinéma du Monde, DocBuenos Aires, and a few more festival, cities and countries, and is now on its way to the Viennale, Brisbane IFF, Tokyo Filmex, and many more to come.


WANG Bing declared about San zimei that the film “follows an ordinary poor peasant’s family of four (a father and his three daughters) and their daily lives. We follow the relation between the family members, how in such misery men are capable of adapting themselves in order to survive, how even in the middle of nothing children manage to grow up, how the daily minute things are mountains for those people.
When I first met the family about four years ago, I was touched by the incredibly difficult situation in which those kids were growing up. This is why I wanted to testify about the reality of these poor peasants’ life in contemporary China.”