A Letter to my Cousin in China

  • A Letter to my Cousin in China
Genre : Biography
Type : Documentary
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Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 1999
Format : Mid-length
Running time : 52 (in minutes)

A personal and moving account of a family's history, the immigrant's lifelong search for home and one man's realization of what home means. Twenty years in the making, the film begins with Han's parents' childhood in Hainan, their arranged marriage and tragic separation and their poignant reunion in South Africa 14 years later. It tells of a family's struggle to forge an identity in a foreign land, as second class citizens during the apartheid years.

SA 1999 52min Video Dir: Henion Han

FESTIVALS / AWARDS / SCREENINGS 2000 | Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival | CAPE TOWN, South Africa | www.encounters.co.za * Selection

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