This Shore: A Family Story

This Shore: A Family Story

0.0 2020 | 62 min

Documentary

An experimental documentary which opens with a story of my family: my American aunt found a painting of my grandmother by chance, in a random Chinese restaurant in the middle of nowhere - she said she cried. By tracing this story and reproducing its meaning, the film wonders through different topics: the construction of the Cold War, USA and Taiwan relations, different generations of Chinese diaspora since the 1950s, contemporary immigration and cross-nation fluidity, family romances, religion, and ancestors...

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Production Countries:

Taiwan

Spoken Languages:

Mandarin
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