Open: 14:00 - 16:30 hrs
Tickets: €
Rebinding Home: Family in the Diaspora presents different facades of being a diaspora by presenting the series of works Miao Collective encountered, at Kassel, Germany, and at Toronto, Canada. We want to stir up the thinking about identity fluidity, consequences of choices, reconciliation between body and culture, family footages and family memories, boundaries of the self, and more.
We will screen two films, Welcome Back, Farewell (2021) by Marcos Yoshi and Papaya (2022) by Dédé Chen. The film screening will be followed by a Q&A with the two directors and a vegan dinner provided by the organiser. The recipes of the dinner come from the home recipes of the two directors Marcos and Dédé, representing the taste that reminds them of home.Both films have English subtitles.
Dinner will be provided from 17:00 hrs at the De Peper Kitchen (OT301) downstairs.
Pricing:
Film screening + dinner: € 10
Film screening only: € 7.5
Dinner only: € 2.5
** pay at the door by cash or card.
Whether you come for film screening or dinner or both, please all register via our Eventbrite link in advance
Information about the filmmakers and the films:
1. Papaya (2022, 11 minutes, Country: Canada, Language: French)
A Sino-Canadian adoptee breaks the silence of incest by responding to her family archives through dance. In the ritual sacrifice of a papaya, she reenacts her traumatic past to emancipate her adult self.
Papaya premiered at Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival 2022, and it was selected and shown at multiple film festivals such as Festival Filministes 2023 (Mention spéciale - court-métrage d’art et d’essai).
Born in Nanchang, China in 1995, Dédé Chen now lives in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Canada, where she creates works about the performance of filiation. As an anthropologist, she is interested in autoethnography as a source of creative writing.
2. Welcome Back, Farewell / Bem-vindos de novo (2021, 105 minutes, Country: Brazil, Language: Portuguese)
An autobiographical documentary about a Japanese descent family affected by the immigration flux between Brazil and Japan. After 13 years apart, Marcos Yoshi reencounters his parents. Once together, they face the desire to guarantee the future of the family and the impossibility of remaining together.
Welcome Back, Farewell was selected by multiple film festivals around the world, including Tokyo Documentary Film Festival (Japan), 25th Tiradentes Film Festival (Brazil), 38th Chicago Latino Film Festival (USA), etc.
Marcos Yoshi is a filmmaker based in São Paulo, Brazil. He wrote and directed fiction short films, and "Welcome Back, Farewell" is his debut documentary feature film. He is also a Ph.D. candidate working on first-person documentaries at the University of São Paulo.