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KANARIS THEATRE, FLOOR 2

Join us for a screening of the film Reunification, as part of the Waving Kites: Hong Kong Diaspora Cinema UK tour, sharing stories of the Hong Kong diaspora experience across different moments and places.

Reunification 家庭團聚

Dir. Alvin TSANG 曾穎馳, 2015, 86m, Documentary

When his mother and two siblings first immigrated from Hong Kong to Los Angeles in the early 1980s, six-year-old Alvin was forced to stay behind with his working and consequently absent father. Spending the following three years often alone in an empty apartment, he longed for his family's reunification. However, upon Alvin and his father's arrival to America, that dream was utterly and permanently shattered. REUNIFICATION is AIvin Tsang's poetic and self-reflective exploration of many unresolved years that moves moodily across different channels and modes, bending into labor histories and Hong Kong's colonial trajectories. Alvin turns the camera on his own family, cautiously prodding for answers, but fully acknowledging that the only closure he can get will be from deciding for himself how to move on.

Sharing stories of the Hong Kong diaspora experience across different moments and places, Waving Kites: Hong Kong Diaspora Cinema traces a range of perspectives, from hope to disillusionment, separation and exploration, the struggle to settle, and reflections shaped by global capitalism and xenophobia.

These films attend not only to those who have left but also to those who remain; to building relationships in places that may feel unwelcoming; and to how migration can open paths to self-understanding. Together, they span diasporic experiences from the 1980s to more recent waves of emigration, moving between Hong Kong, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

For more information, please visit hongkongindiefilm.wordpress.com.

Waving Kites is organised by Newcastle University and supported by BFI's National Lottery Screen Heritage Fund.