Event: PCHC Film Night: A Smorgasboard of Refugee Stories
Date: April 26, 2023 (Wednesday)
Time: 6:00pm -7:50pm
Venue: Room 1600, Harbour Centre SFU Vancouver Campus (515 West Hastings St., Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3)
Register here / Rejoignez ici!
Rejoignez-nous pour la première française de "Passage vers la liberté" - un documentaire émouvant qui présente les histoires orales de personnes réfugiées de l'Asie du Sud-Est.
Screenings include extracts from award-winning filmmaker Cheuk Kwan’s epic Chinese Restaurants (Episode 1), a short Heritage Minute on “Boat People”, personal migration stories shared and captured by PCHC-Museum of Migration Society, and an intro to the “Hearts of Freedom” project, as well as a fascinating account by an immigration official Michael Molloy of his involvement & reflections on this recent and previously undocumented chapter in Canadian history. The final program will be a sneak preview of the French version of "Passage to Freedom" - a poignant documentary that recounts the firsthand accounts of Southeast Asian refugees who embarked on perilous voyages from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam to Canada.
Passage to Freedom is a poignant documentary that recounts the firsthand accounts of Southeast Asian refugees who embarked on perilous voyages from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam to Canada. Through a skillful interweaving of archival footage, news reports, and interviews with former refugees and Canadian immigration officials, the film vividly portrays the resettlement of over 100,000 Southeast Asian refugees in Canada between 1975 and 1985. The Canadian response to the refugee crisis was internationally recognized with the UNHCR Nansen Medal in 1986. The film sheds light on the refugees’ integration into Canadian society and celebrates the contributions of both the first generation and their descendants.
This free program is brought to you by PCHC-MoM Society with support from the Government of Canada, City of Vancouver, SFU Vancouver, and in collaboration with Hearts of Freedom national partners & local partners.