REUNIFICATION 家庭團聚 | Manchester Screening | Waving Kites

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.

八十年代初，曾穎馳的母親帶同哥哥和妹妹移民美國洛衫磯，年僅六歲的他被遺留在香港，跟着忙於工作的父親生活。往後三年，曾穎馳經常獨自留在家裹，睡夢中也期待着與家人重憨 的一天。可是，當父親終於帶他移居美國，美夢卻徹底地破碎。曾穎馳藉《家庭團聚》詩意而自省地回溯多年難解的結，其思緒跨過不同渠道及模式，揉合了美國西裔家庭的勞工歷史及香港殖民地的痕跡。他也把鏡頭對準家人，小心翼翼探求答案，也心裡明白，只有當自己下定決心如何走下一步之後，才會真正解開心結。

This event is part of Waving Kites: Hong Kong Diasporic Cinema UK Tour, organised by the Chinese Independent Film Archive at Newcastle University, in partnership with Manchester Museum.

Please arrive 15 minutes before the screening starts.

Waving Kites is curated by CIFA, with the support of the BFI Screen Heritage Fund, awarding National Lottery funding.

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