Film + Discussion series: Asian diasporic representation from the 90's to now | Past Lives

​Join Eesha and Lizzie for Film Club’s newest event series, exploring trends in filmmaking by Asian diasporic filmmakers and how the concept of "representation" has evolved over the past thirty years! Enjoy movie screenings at The Ruby, complete with refreshments and a post-screening discussion/reflection!

This month will be our long-anticipated screening of Past Lives from Korean-Canadian dramatist and film-maker Celine Song. The film centers on Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, who are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance." From the Guardian: "It's a movie that speaks to the migrant experience and the way this creates lifelong alternative realities in the mind: the self that could have stayed behind in the old country, versus the one that went abroad for a new future."