Edward Yang is one of the world’s premier directors, winning and being nominated for many awards over the last 20 years. His first foray into filmmaking, as screenwriter for THE WINTER OF 1905, was an Official Selection out of Competition in Cannes. His first feature film as writer/director, THAT DAY – ON THE BEACH, won the Best Film, Director and Screenplay awards at the Taipei Critics Awards, as well as the Gold award at the Houston International Film Festival. TAIPEI STORY, his follow-up film, won the Fipresci prize at the Locarno Film festival of 1985. He returned in 1986 with THE TERRORISOR, a film that was an Official Selection out of Competition in Cannes, as well as a Grand Jury Prize winner at the Locarno Film Festival.

After an absence of five years he made A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY and scooped the Grand Jury and Fipresci prizes at the Tokyo Film Festival in 1991. He returned to Cannes in 1994 with A CONFUCIAN CONFUSION,an Official Selection in Competition. His next film, MAHJONG, was shown at the Berlin Film Festival in 1996 and won the Special Jury Prize.

Cannes Film Festival 2025 (France)
Official Selection, Cannes Classics

Genres: Drama

Featuring: Nianzhen Wu, Issei Ogata, Elaine Jin, Kelly Lee, and Jonathan Chang

Rating: PG

Duration: 173 mins

Languages: Mandarin (with English subtitles)

One of the best films of the decade, Yi Yi (is) a fluent, charming and precise family portrait that celebrates ordinary life with all its joys and chaos.— Emanuel Levy

Yang takes the long view, transforming the ingredients of family melodrama into a serene, generous, comic vision of our tangled urban lives. — Newsweek

A rare work of beauty, a thoughtful, touching, compelling study of humanity that demands to be seen. — DVDTalk.com