From Border To Border

Story

Since the beginning of the 19th century, there has existed a large and lively Chinese diaspora in India. Taiwanese director Chung Shefong travels to the heart of Calcutta’s Chinatown and illuminates the origins and realities of Chinese life there. On the one hand, she documents the great historical breaks in Sino-Indian relations, on the other the cultural interweaving, both historical and pop-cultural. A filmic-ethnographic kaleidoscope from the great waves of immigration through the Sino-Indian war of 1962 up to the first Bollywood star of Chinese origin.This film is part of the special series “Chinese Independent Cinema”.

Director

CHUNG SHEFONG (1964*) founded a music label for folk and world music in 1993 and the Migration Music Festival in Taiwan in 2001. At present, she teaches at the National Chen-chi University in Taipei. Her debut full-length film From Border to Border was made in cooperation with artists from Taiwan, Germany, India and Indonesia.