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My Mother Told Me (2007)

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'I wanted to be someone else'

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Clip description

A woman reflects on her arrival in Australia with her mother as a Cambodian refugee. She wonders about her absent father, who her mother will not tell her about.

Curator’s notes

In this sequence, the narrator moves from her family’s history as victims of the Cambodian war to her experience growing up in Australia. It becomes a deeply personal reflection on her relationship with her mother and the facts – and gaps – in her own story.