1979, Linh and Hung, a young refugee couple, are sponsored into Vancouver, Canada, after the war in Vietnam. Looking to the future, they do everything they can to build a new life for their budding family. A neighbouring indigenous family, recognizing their struggles, extends their hand in friendship and acceptance. When Linh and Hung have a baby girl, they ask their new friends to give their daughter a Canadian
Based on True Stories / Events
Sugar on The Weaver’s Chair
Three women in three regions in Indonesia have problems about their helplessness towards their nature as women generally, facing equality, rights and traditions, yet transforming them into empowerment for the lives around them.
A Question of Survival
A documentary film about the legacy of the Holocaust in the Balkans, as seen through the eyes -and conflicting memories- of three Bulgarian Jewish survivors in New York. Chaim Zemach, a cellist; Robert Bakish, an engineer; and Misha Avramoff, a social worker struggle to place their unusual experiences during World War II in Bulgaria into the more common narrative of the Shoah. They question the value of their stories and debate whether they are true Holocaust “survivors.”