LIVE A HUNDRED YEARS
short • drama • 12 minutes • China • 2025
COMING SOON
COMING SOON
LOGLINE
A woman feeds her mother-in-law with her own milk. One day, someone will do the same for her.
SYNOPSIS
On the eve of his mother’s 100th birthday, a man invites a doctor to treat her sudden refusal to eat. The solution is unconventional: the elderly woman must be fed breastmilk. His wife volunteers. What begins as a desperate act of filial piety slowly evolves into a daily ritual, performed in silence, surrounded by reverence. The mother thrives. The family celebrates. Photographs aretaken.
Years later, beneath the same family portrait marked with the character “Longevity”, a younger woman gently feeds milk to the woman who once did the same. The roles have changed. The ritual has not.
FESTIVAL STATUS & APPEARANCES
PREMIERE STATUS
World premiere available.
IN CONSIDERATION
Currently in consideration for several international film festivals.
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DIRECTOR BIO
Dawan Ma (马大湾) is a Chinese filmmaker, novelist and screenwriter born in Shenyang in 1987. After studying mathematics at the Technical University of Berlin, he turned to storytelling to expose the violence beneath ritual, identity and family silence.
His feature Nine Iron was selected by Tokyo Lift‑Off Film Festival 2021, while The Chocolate selected at Flickers’ Rhode Island Film Festival 2021.
Completed in 2025, US THEM — twelve‑part anthology with collaborators from China and Spain (including shorts Barbie and Live a Hundred Years) — continues his precise exploration of local yet global human experience.
PREVIOUS FESTIVAL SELECTIONS:
Tokyo Lift‑Off Film Festival 2021,
Flickers’ Rhode Island Film Festival 2021
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PRODUCTION DETAILS
CAST & CREW
Written & Directed by
Dawan Ma
Cinematography by
Wei Liu
Music by
Pancho Burgos-Goizueta
Starring:
Zhigang Ma, Xuebo Tao, Ping Zhang, Minli Xiao
MAGNIFIER PRODUCTION, CH
WITH CO-PRODUCTION AND STRATEGIC SUPPORT BY ORNUMA, FR
(VERTICAL & SOCIAL MEDIA)
COMPOSER SPAIN / LA
Pancho Burgos-Goizueta is born in Madrid, Spain. Graduated from Berklee College of Music, majoring in Film Scoring and Composition. Winner of the 2015 ASCAP David Rose Award, ASCAP Film Scoring Fellow, and selected as a member of the Hollywood Film Scoring Conducting Fellow in 2017. He contributed music department work to Disney's High School Musical 2" and "High School Musical 3: Senior Year". Recent feature credit include composing the full score for Lionsgate’s drama "Ordinary Angels" (2024, starring Oscar winner Hilary Swank).
MAIN WORKS
2025 The Unbreakable Boy
2025 US THEM
2024 Ordinary Angels
2020 Killing Diaz
2019 Master Servant
2011 Teen Wolf
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE WINNER
Boston Independent FF, Garden State FF, European Cinematography Awards (ECA), IndieX FF, Oregon Short FF, Solaris FF
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