Thursday
26. January 2023 – City46
Program
Two cinematic films await us on the big screen
Film 1 – Dea
Dea leaves rural Indonesia and her singing dreams behind to migrate to Hong Kong as a foreign domestic worker to support her family. The script is the result of a nine-months acting workshop with a group of female migrant workers from Indonesia, who have been victims of domestic violence while working in Hong Kong.
Alberto Gerosa is an italian anthropologist and filmmaker. In 2007 he moved to China and has been lecturing in visual anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He holds a bachelor in Performing Arts and Social Sciences, a joint master of research in Social and Cultural Anthropology from Ljubljana and Stockholm Universities and a PhD in Cultural and Religious Studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Trigger warning: Thematization of domestic violence, loneliness
Film 2 – Unwritten Letters
I want to see “my film” in this film, says Abd to Max. Abd is a 24 years old Syrian, who took part in the early days of the 2011 revolution and now lives in Padova, Italy. Together with his friend Max he is working on a film called “Unwritten Letters”. As they are exploring how to turn Abd’s reality in Italy into a film, Abd is revisiting his past and diving into possible futures. “Unwritten Letters” documents the story of a young Syrian man arriving in Europe and his process to make sense of who he is through film and friendship.
Abd Alrahman Dukmak (b. 1993) was raised in Damascus and moved to Beirut to study TV and film. While being in college, Abd has been working as a script writer and director for several short films. His most recent short “Shimmer” was screened at Beirut International Film Festival and Dubai International Film Festival. Abd is currently studying Multimedia Arts at IUAV University of Venice.
Trigger warning: escape, loss, loneliness
