The Japan-born son of an illegal Thai immigrant faces deportation under Japan’s increasingly conservative immigration policy. Filmed in careful detail, Prapat Jiwarangsan draws a portrait of the young man by scratching onto a photograph of his silhouette, a process that brings out his humanity more than an anonymous state statistic.
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Disintegration 93-96
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Film details
- Country of production
- Thailand
- Year
- 2018
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 7'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
