Seattle Asian American Film Festival 2021

Southeast Asian Showcase

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4 films in package
IN THIS LAND WE'RE BRIEFLY GHOSTS
Myanmar, 2013. A 12-year-old Burmese child soldier, imprisoned for deserting battle, is forced to either kill her older brother, a fellow deserter, or die alongside him. Based on actual events.
KEEP SARAY HOME
ICE doesn’t just separate families at the border. In the outskirts of Boston, three families face the impending threat of deportation. But as refugees from Cambodia and Vietnam, they know they’ll have to fight together to stay together.
GHOST MOUNTAIN
The story of a Cambodian refugee, survivor of the Killing Fields and a second, never before documented horror, who was deported and forced back over the Cambodian border.
Southeast Asian Showcase Q&A
Moderated by Linh Nguyen with Chen-Wen Lo (director, In This Land We're Briefly Ghosts), Brian Redondo (director, Keep Saray Home), and James Taing (director, Ghost Mountain).
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Tales of perseverance, grit and forgiveness show us the diversity of what the road of recovery from imperialism can look like. From a refugee recalling his past in GHOST MOUNTAIN to IN THIS LAND WE'RE BRIEFLY GHOSTS sharing the story of imprisoned child soldiers in Myanmar, and contemporary challenges with ICE in KEEP SARAY HOME, this program highlights Southeast Asian Americans as a complex, hard-won identity.


Co-presented by Khmer Health Board Seattle

It's Myanmar in 2013. A 12-year-old Burmese child soldier, imprisoned for deserting battle, is forced to either kill her older brother, a fellow deserter, or die alongside him. Based on actual events. (Content Warning: War, Death, State Violence)

  • Year
    2019
  • Runtime
    16 minutes
  • Language
    Burmese
  • Country
    Taiwan, United States, Myanmar
  • Note
    English Subtitles
  • Director
    Chen-Wen Lo
  • Cast
    Kathy Arfa Htwe, Nathaniel Matulessya
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