TBFF21 presents 'Family Trip'
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Toronto (various locations), Toronto
- Language English
- Price tickets at TBFF
Presented by the Toronto Black Film Festival with the Goethe-Institut Toronto
For the 9th Toronto Black Film Festival the Goethe-Institut Toronto is pleased to co-present the world premiere of the German short drama “Family Trip” by Chinese-born Berlin-based director Danting Chen. Focusing on issues of identity, migration, family, and acceptance, the film not only amplifies major contemporary subjects, it also allows Chen to reflect her own experiences. TBFF is aiming to amplify innovative, strong, diverse, and bold perspectives such as Chen’s for audiences across Canada. The TBFF short films can be watched worldwide and are not subject to geo-blocking!
“Family Trip” (Germany, 2021, 9 min.), drama directed by Danting Chen, with Saddiq Abubakar, Giulia Casale, Corneliu Dragumirescu, Salber Lee Williams and others.
An Afro-Italian boy revisits Amantea with his father, a town on the Tyrrhenian coast where they took refuge years ago. Yet their world is again threatened to scatter as he encounters a little girl who is about to bring her destructive family into play.
Danting Chen is a director, screenwriter and photographer of the Bai minority ethnic group from Yunnan, China. Born in 1995, Danting has developed since early adolescence a great interest in film, photography, drawing and poetry. She later attended Tongji University in Shanghai and gained experience in directing, shooting and editing as a freelancer and Disney animator. In 2016 she moved to Berlin, Germany, and in 2018 she wrote, directed and produced her first short narrative. As a queer woman, her realm of interest includes LGBTQ+, feminism, family dynamics, social dilemmas and more. Besides post-production, Chen also pursued a career in writing as well as directing, joining the roster of Berlin art house film collective Dandelion Pictures. After finishing work on "Family Trip," she is currently in post-production for her follow-up short film “Onshore at Southhampton".
TRAILER HERE
The Toronto Black Film Festival was founded in 2013 by the Fabienne Colas Foundation, a non-profit, professional organization of artists that has set the goal of promoting cinema, art and culture in Canada. It offers unique voices in cinema the opportunity to present new worldviews to the audience. Specifically tailored to fit the moment, TBFF returns for a meaningful edition available entirely online across Canada and around the world which highlights important topics such as the women’s rights, mental health issues, global politics, environment, immigration, systemic racism and Black Lives Matter. Also introducing this year, TBFF will facilitate a Public Choice Award: Every TBFF All Access Pass holder will be given the opportunity to vote for their favourite films on the Festival’s online streaming platform in various categories.
Details:
Films can be watched across Canada Feb 10-21 by purchasing the festival’s ALL ACCESS PASS.
Part of the Goethe-Institut focus on German film
For the 9th Toronto Black Film Festival the Goethe-Institut Toronto is pleased to co-present the world premiere of the German short drama “Family Trip” by Chinese-born Berlin-based director Danting Chen. Focusing on issues of identity, migration, family, and acceptance, the film not only amplifies major contemporary subjects, it also allows Chen to reflect her own experiences. TBFF is aiming to amplify innovative, strong, diverse, and bold perspectives such as Chen’s for audiences across Canada. The TBFF short films can be watched worldwide and are not subject to geo-blocking!
“Family Trip” (Germany, 2021, 9 min.), drama directed by Danting Chen, with Saddiq Abubakar, Giulia Casale, Corneliu Dragumirescu, Salber Lee Williams and others.
An Afro-Italian boy revisits Amantea with his father, a town on the Tyrrhenian coast where they took refuge years ago. Yet their world is again threatened to scatter as he encounters a little girl who is about to bring her destructive family into play.
Danting Chen is a director, screenwriter and photographer of the Bai minority ethnic group from Yunnan, China. Born in 1995, Danting has developed since early adolescence a great interest in film, photography, drawing and poetry. She later attended Tongji University in Shanghai and gained experience in directing, shooting and editing as a freelancer and Disney animator. In 2016 she moved to Berlin, Germany, and in 2018 she wrote, directed and produced her first short narrative. As a queer woman, her realm of interest includes LGBTQ+, feminism, family dynamics, social dilemmas and more. Besides post-production, Chen also pursued a career in writing as well as directing, joining the roster of Berlin art house film collective Dandelion Pictures. After finishing work on "Family Trip," she is currently in post-production for her follow-up short film “Onshore at Southhampton".
TRAILER HERE
The Toronto Black Film Festival was founded in 2013 by the Fabienne Colas Foundation, a non-profit, professional organization of artists that has set the goal of promoting cinema, art and culture in Canada. It offers unique voices in cinema the opportunity to present new worldviews to the audience. Specifically tailored to fit the moment, TBFF returns for a meaningful edition available entirely online across Canada and around the world which highlights important topics such as the women’s rights, mental health issues, global politics, environment, immigration, systemic racism and Black Lives Matter. Also introducing this year, TBFF will facilitate a Public Choice Award: Every TBFF All Access Pass holder will be given the opportunity to vote for their favourite films on the Festival’s online streaming platform in various categories.
Details:
Films can be watched across Canada Feb 10-21 by purchasing the festival’s ALL ACCESS PASS.
Part of the Goethe-Institut focus on German film
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