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[Does it matter now if I come or go] இனி வந்தென்ன வராமல் என்ன

The film is dedicated to asking which memories remain in a temporary space like an asylum shelter when people have long ceased to live there. Which traces are inscribed in the building and refer to life and living in the interstice of flight? What is the basis for remembering when, for example, letters have long since ceased to exist because they were lost during the war years?

The screening in the presence of German-Tamil filmmaker, curator and cultural scholar Anujah Fernando will be followed by a conversation between her and independent writer and policy analyst Amita Arudpragasam on questions of belonging, migration, home and the liminal spaces between.

இனி வந்தென்ன வராமல் என்ன [Does it matter now if I come or go] © Anujah Fernando

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[Does it matter now if I come or go] இனி வந்தென்ன வராமல் என்ன

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