Hi, Mom

Hi, Mom (你好，李焕英, 2021) is a Chinese fantasy-comedy drama you can watch online on iFILM, written and directed by Jia Ling, who also plays the lead.

After her mother suffers a serious accident, Xiao Jia'er is overwhelmed by guilt — she had always meant to do more, be better. Then she finds herself back in 1981, face to face with her mother as a young woman who hasn't yet married, hasn't yet become anyone's mom. Armed with knowledge of everything to come, she decides to rewrite the story and give her a better life.

Jia Ling built the script from personal grief over her own mother's death, and that weight carries through even the comedy. The film set domestic box-office records in China — not on spectacle, but because audiences laughed and cried in the same breath. The time-travel premise is scaffolding; underneath it is a straightforward story about love and the things we never get to say in time. Watch Hi, Mom (2021) online on iFILM.