Directed by Huang Xi (Taiwan, 2024, runtime 126 min.). Mandarin and English with English subtitles.

Winner of Best Original Screenplay at the 2024 Golden Horse Awards and nominated for four additional prizes, including Best Leading Actress for Sylvia Chang, Daughter’s Daughter is a deeply moving cross-generational drama about love, regret, and the limits of choice.

When Jin, a woman in her 60s, learns that her daughter and daughter’s partner have died in a tragic accident, she is thrust into an impossible decision: whether or not to bring their embryo to term. Traveling from Taiwan to New York and still reeling from grief, Jin is also forced to confront the daughter she gave up for adoption as a teenager. Past regrets and future responsibilities collide as Jin navigates the emotional weight of motherhood in all its forms.

Attuned to the complexities of familial bonds and shaped by a distinctly female perspective, Daughter’s Daughter explores how mothers and daughters define—and redefine—themselves through love, loss, and the passage of time. Director Huang Xi draws inspiration from Simone de Beauvoir’s notion that “one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman,” portraying Jin’s journey not only as a reckoning with motherhood but as a powerful act of becoming.

Stay tuned after the screening to watch a prerecorded Q and A with the director.

Watch the trailer.