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Floating Life (1996)

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clip 'Where is my home?'

Original classification rating: MA. This clip chosen to be PG

Clip description

In Germany, eldest daughter Yen (Annette Shun Wah) has just told her husband Michael (Julian Pulvermacher) that she wants to move to Australia. In bed, she tells him that their daughter wants to live near her grandparents. Michael responds that he and his daughter are German. Yen cries as she asks him what she is.

Curator’s notes

The separation from parents is a powerful theme in this film – and it’s not just the living parents. Mr and Mrs Chan feel a powerful loss in being so far from where their ancestors are buried in Hong Kong.