Hidden Letters

(2024)

★ 7.3 IMDb · 235 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2024

Runtime: 86 мин

Country: China, United States of America

Director: Violet Du Feng, Zhao Qing

Cast: Xin Hu, Simu Wu, He Yanxin

Plot

In modern day China, two women strive to preserve Nushu, an ancient secret language which bonded generations of Chinese women together through centuries of oppression in a clandestine support system of sisterhood and survival.

Hidden Letters tells the story of two Chinese women trying to balance their lives as independent women in modern China while confronting the traditional identity that defines but also oppresses them. Connected through their love for Nushu--a centuries- old secret text shared among women -- each of them transforms through a pivotal period of their lives and takes a step closer to becoming the individuals they know they can be.