Come to Me, Paradise
Lumapit sa akin, paraiso
Paraiso, an all-seeing drone spirit, is summoned every Sunday into the heart of Hong Kong where Filipina migrant workers gather to socialise. As the women claim the public space, Stephanie Comilang’s sci-fi documentary considers social connections in today’s age of economic migration and modern technology.
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Destination Nowhere
The Japan-born son of an illegal Thai immigrant faces deportation. Scratching into a silhouette on a photograph, a portrait is created and filmed i
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Sewing Borders
Through personal tales of displacement, Beirut residents personalise different maps of the city and region by sewing borders onto them.
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The New World, Episode One
In this desktop film, the history of Arab immigrants to the US is evoked through archival material of ordinary people and the melancholy songs that
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Disintegration 93-96
Living in the USA illegally for over 20 years, Miko Revereza reflects on his family’s relocation from Manila to Los Angeles in this introspec
Film details
- Country of production
- Canada
- Year
- 2017
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 25"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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