JIFF: Where But Into the Sea

Poetic and artistic, documentary Where But Into The Sea illuminates the under-reported facts about the asylum process for Jewish people in wartime Japan and Japanese occupied Shanghai, China.

Poetic and artistic, documentary Where But Into The Sea illuminates the under-reported facts about the asylum process for Jewish people in wartime Japan and Japanese occupied Shanghai, China - many of whom made Australia their home - while painting an intimate portrait of refugees whose stories of displacement ring just as true in today’s modern context.

The film delves into the asylum process through Polish Holocaust survivors’ Maria Kamm and Marcel Weyland’s own words: remembering what was, and embracing what will be – a new world, a new life, and a future free from persecution.

Rating

E

Language

English, Japanese, Yiddish (English subtitles)

Director

Mirai Osawa