Screening Overseas
Dates
- Date:
- 28 May 2025
- Time:
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18:30 - 21:30
Quinoa offers its film meet-ups based on a subject chosen collectively. The formula? A social issue that speaks to us; a film that excites us, because it questions the system and proposes alternatives; a ‘home-made’ animation that leaves room for the audience; discussions with or without guests, offering a kind space for exchange.
On Thursday, May 28th at 6:30 p.m., we’re screening the film “Overseas” by film director Sung-A Yoon (2019 – 90 min. Iota prod.)
In the Philippines, women are sent abroad en masse as housekeepers or nannies. They often leave their own children behind before embarking on the unknown. In a domestic service training center, like so many others in the Philippines, a group of prospective workers prepares for homesickness and the abuse they could face. During role-playing exercises, the women put themselves in the shoes of both employees and employers.
Bordering on fiction, “Overseas” addresses the modern servitude of our globalized world, while revealing the determination of these women, their sisterhood, and the strategies they put in place to face the challenges the future holds.
Pay-what-you-can entrance fee – recommended price: €2
Registration recommended! (form below)
The film will be screened with French and English subtitles
The talk will be in English and French with direct translation when needed.
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Program and registration
6.30 : doors opening – bar and appetizers by our volunteers raisng funds for their project in Philippines this summer
7.00 : film
8.15 : debate
Registration form :
The film director · Sung-A Yoon
Yoon Sung-A is a French-Korean director and artist living in Brussels. She trained at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University (theater), the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris-Cergy, and the INSAS film school in Brussels. Playing with forms and genres, her films are distinguished by a hybrid character and a particular attention to the staging device. Her work borrows as much from the documentary approach as from the codes of fiction.
In the 2000s, she produced around ten videos, mainly shown in the contemporary art world (Jeu de Paume Museum, Busan Biennale, Le Plateau Art Center, Palais de Tokyo, Maison d’Art Bernard Anthonioz, Bétonsalon Gallery, etc.). Her graduation short film, “ET DANS MON CŒUR J’EMPORTERAI” (AND IN MY HEART I WILL TAKE OUT) was selected for the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and then circulated internationally. In 2012, she traveled to South Korea in search of her absent father, resulting in her first feature-length documentary, “FULL OF MISSING LINKS” (Courtisane-Ghent Festival, London Korean Film Festival, etc.).
“OVERSEAS,” her second feature-length documentary, shot in the Philippines with women trained as domestic workers, was presented at the 2019 Locarno Film Festival (Cinéastes du Présent). Winning multiple awards, it has screened at numerous international festivals (MoMA-Doc Fortnight, Busan IFF, BFI London FF, IDFA, Premiers plans d’Angers, etc.). Concurrently, Yoon has created videos in the performing arts. She was also a member of the selection committee for the Belgian documentary festival “Filmer à Tout Prix” (Filming at Any Price), and since 2015, she has been teaching filmmaking at the Haute École Libre de Bruxelles (HEU).
She is currently developing her first feature-length fiction film.
In making this film, I was keen to challenge the stereotype of the uneducated immigrant cleaning woman as a passive, helpless victim. I wanted to highlight the uniqueness and dignity of the women in the film.