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

GHOST MOUNTAIN is the story of Bunseng Taing, a Cambodian refugee who made his way to Connecticut in 1980 after surviving both the Killing Fields and a second horror never before documented. He was among 45,000 refugees who managed to escape to what they believed was safety in Thailand, only to be forced back over the Cambodian border to an area covered with landmines. (Content Warning: War, Genocide)

  • Year
    2019
  • Runtime
    41 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Premiere
    PNW Premiere
  • Note
    Open Captions
  • Director
    James Taing, Virginia Lynch Dean
  • Cast
    James Taing, Virginia Lynch Dean
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