Sunflower

Zhang Yang's family drama charts three decades in the troubled relationship between an overbearing father (Sun Haiying, playing a once gifted painter who returns from a labor camp unable to paint), the rebellious son (Gao Ge) he pushes to fulfill his own dreams, and the wife and mother (Joan Chen) caught between them. The family portrait also becomes a survey of the changing social and physical landscape of Beijing, from the waning days of the cultural revolution to the modernity of the present. Includes the featurette "The Making of Sunflower."