Which place can you call home? Where are your roots? How do you integrate in Dutch society while at the same time remaining connected to the country you call home?

Questions that are relatable to anyone with a history of migration. Through a series of short videos from five young Chinese artists, who currently live and work in the Netherlands, we focus on stating and demonstrating our existing power system, representing the cultural transmutation, and positioning the roots of our belongings. It proposes a dialogue between wandering and settlement, fantasy and reality, and the past and the present.

Crossed the Blue is a short film program curated and presented by CinemAsia curator YU Minhong. Features the works from ZHOU Jinxiao ((Un)learn The intersectional shame), PENG Zuqiang (Sight Leak), CHEN Hangfeng (The intertwined dream), HE Jing & GUO Qiaochu (Real - Integration), followed by a Q&A.

The Crossed the Blue program is part of CinemAsia Film Festivla, the only pan-Asian Film Festival in the Netherlands celebrating its 15th edition this year from 7-12 March in Amsterdam. CinemAsia brings the best of Asian cinema to Amsterdam as well as providing a platform for the Asian diaspora in the Netherlands to showcase their talent and works.

For more information: www.cinemasia.nl

Crossed the Blue will be in English.

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