All Our Father’s Relations 祖根父脈
(A film by Sarah Ling & Alejandro Yoshizawa)
All Our Father’s Relations (祖根⽗脈) helps to record and revitalize the interconnected histories of Chinese Canadian and First Nations relations along the Fraser River in British Columbia. Dating as far back as the 19th century, relations between Chinese and First Nations in Canada were often respectful and mutually beneficial; both peoples supported one another in the face of marginalization and racism. This documentary film features siblings Helen Callbreath, Gordon Grant, Larry Grant, and Howard E. Grant, who are elders from the Musqueam Nation with Chinese ancestry. The siblings reflect on their experiences growing up on the Chinese farms at Musqueam and in Vancouver’s Chinatown, and the impact of discriminatory government legislation on their lives. They also visit the ancestral village of their late father, in Guangdong, China, for the first time.
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From C to C: Chinese Canadian Stories of Migration 金山夢－中國與加拿大的故事
(A film by Jordan Paterson)
Filmed in Canada and China’s Guangdong province, ‘From C to C’ contrasts the historical injustices faced by Chinese migrants to Canada and their families over the last century, with the experiences of contemporary Chinese Canadian youth and their transnational identities today.
Tricks on the Dead 潛龍之殤 － 一戰中的華工軍團
(A film by Jordan Paterson)
China’s emergence as a world power through the First World War is rooted the forgotten story of a group of Chinese peasants who were sent to an imperialist war they didn’t understand. Zhang Yan, a student from the same Shandong villages as the Chinese labourers in WWI, searches to restore the collective memory of those 140,000 men who made this journey 100 years ago.