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What would you do if your only child died mysteriously in another country and was buried in your absence? The World Is Bright follows the epic 10-year journey of an elderly Chinese couple searching for the truth behind their son’s death in Canada. What starts out looking like a murder mystery becomes something else entirely—a rare revelation about immigration, mental health, and a Kafkaesque bureaucracy at the heart of global migration.
Sensitive content: suicide
- Year2019
- Runtime116 minutes
- LanguageChinese, English
- CountryCanada
- NoteTrigger warning: suicide
- DirectorYing Wang
- ScreenwriterYing Wang, Lawrence Le Lam
- ProducerYing Wang, Jian Ping Su, Jordan Paterson
- Co-ProducerPieter Stathis
- CastBerlin Lu
- CinematographerPieter Stathis, Ying Wang, Jian Ping Su
- EditorLawrence Le Lam, Ying Wang
- ComposerDaniel J. K. Ross
- Sound DesignMatt Drake
Co-presented by DCTV.
This film will play with open captions. Audio description is also available for this film. To watch the film with audio description, click the gear in the bottom right corner of your viewing window (after beginning the film). Under the Audio Track dropdown menu, select "Audio Description." The audio description will automatically begin.
Conversation sponsored by Vimeo.
What would you do if your only child died mysteriously in another country and was buried in your absence? The World Is Bright follows the epic 10-year journey of an elderly Chinese couple searching for the truth behind their son’s death in Canada. What starts out looking like a murder mystery becomes something else entirely—a rare revelation about immigration, mental health, and a Kafkaesque bureaucracy at the heart of global migration.
Sensitive content: suicide
- Year2019
- Runtime116 minutes
- LanguageChinese, English
- CountryCanada
- NoteTrigger warning: suicide
- DirectorYing Wang
- ScreenwriterYing Wang, Lawrence Le Lam
- ProducerYing Wang, Jian Ping Su, Jordan Paterson
- Co-ProducerPieter Stathis
- CastBerlin Lu
- CinematographerPieter Stathis, Ying Wang, Jian Ping Su
- EditorLawrence Le Lam, Ying Wang
- ComposerDaniel J. K. Ross
- Sound DesignMatt Drake