UFO in Her Eyes + Introduction at Hackney Picturehouse

Xiaolu Guo's comedy drama. Kwok Yun is a simple woman who leads a peasant’s life in the peaceful mountains around remote Three-Headed Bird Village. One day, after a countryside tryst with a married man, she sees a UFO: a giant, glowing thing in the shape of a dumpling. The ambitious village leader Chief Chang takes advantage of the sighting, stimulating tourism with UFO tours and getting the local economy roaring with progress. Busy aspiring to strengthen relations with the USA, she is blind to the dangers such radical change can bring. 'UFO in Her Eyes' is a biting and hilarious political satire from the director of 'She, A Chinese'.