【密語者 Hidden Letters】
馮都 Violet Du FENG 趙青 ZHAO Qing
中國、德國、挪威、美國 China, Germany, Norway, USA | 2022 | DCP | Color | 87 min
★ 2022 美國翠貝卡影展
★ 2022 BFI倫敦影展
起源於中國湖南省江永縣的「女書」，為女性之間神秘流傳數百年的秘密語言，直至1982年才正式面世。傳唱百年的文字形似書法，時常入曲入詩，不僅作為女性之間的溝通密語，更是抒發心情、相互扶持的重要媒介。現今，女書早已不再是秘密，卻也反遭父權社會、國家體制、資本主義以「推廣」與「保存」之名收編殆盡，看似發揚光大的背後實質上面臨極大的存續威脅。本片在如此背景下，跟隨兩位千禧世代女性的步伐重探女書在當代中國的意義與去存。在女書博物館擔任解說員的胡欣，因無法生出兒子而婚姻失利，透過鑽妍女書在傳統價值和女性自覺之間摸索平衡；思慕透過自學致力於守護女書文化，然而，在夫家加諸的壓力之下，思慕似乎得在自我追求與外界期待之間做選擇。本片鏡頭雖指向片中主角胡欣與思慕的生命故事，卻宏觀地呈現女書的當代處境。橫跨過去及現在，女書所蘊藏的智慧，是否能給予當代女性解答？
Women in China were historically forced into oppressive marriages and forbidden to read or write for thousands of years. To cope, they developed a secret language called “Nushu.” Written in poems or songs, Nushu bonded generations of Chinese women in a support system of sisterhood and survival. Hidden Letters follows two millennial women who are connected by their fascination with Nushu, depicting their struggle to find balance as they forge their own paths in a patriarchal culture.
馮都 Violet Du FENG
現居紐約的中國籍紀綠片製作人、導演。於上海復旦大學畢業後前往加州大學柏克萊分校攻讀新聞系碩士學位。其擔綱製片的多部作品於國際間獲獎無數，包括《我們在黑夜海上》、《曠野歌聲》、《來日不方長》、《尋岸》、《我只認識你》、《被遺忘的1937》等。
Born in Shanghai and based in New York, FENG is an Emmy winning independent documentarian and a 2018 Sundance Creative Producing Fellow. She started her career as a co-producer on the critically acclaimed 2007 Sundance Special Jury winner, Peabody and Emmy winner Nanking.
趙青 ZHAO Qing
中國紀錄片導演、製片，自1991年起進入上海電視台（現SMG）工作。2015年首部紀錄長片《我只認識你》入圍阿姆斯特丹紀錄片影展。2018年起以分集導演身分參與大型纪實真人實境節目《奇遇人生》。2022年再次與馮都合作，合導《密語者》。
ZHAO started her career at Shanghai Media Group in 1991. She is also the director of the award winning Please Remember Me. Since 2018, she has directed and hosted several popular TV documentary programs such as “The Bund” and “Documentary Editing Room.”