Winner, Best Animated Feature Film, 2017
Rosie Ming is a young Canadian poet who lives at home with her over-protective Chinese immigrant grandparents and has never been anywhere by herself. The daughter of a Chinese mother and an Iranian father, she is invited to perform at a poetry festival in Shiraz, Iran, but would rather go to the bright lights of Paris. Once in Iran, however, she finds herself in the company of poets and Persians who tell her stories that force her to confront her past: the Iranian father she assumed had abandoned her and the nature of poetry itself. A poignant tale about building bridges between cultural and generational divides, being curious and finding your own voice through the magic of poetry.
APSA Winner Clip
Post win interview with Ann Marie Fleming
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and emerging. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
