China Reverse

Film director Judith Benedikt embarks on a journey following first and second-generation immigrants from China in Austria, who are mainly stranded in Asian restaurants in the city and in the countryside. After half a century of migration, mainly in one direction, there is a new current flowing back to the East thanks to the economic boom in China. Gradually a new generation is emerging that has to face the fact that Chinas current boom can also create new opportunities for them. One of the protagonists – a father, who already built up a whole empire of Asian snack stands and restaurants in Vienna – dares the leap back to China, to establish a chain of typical Viennese coffee houses there. Backwards migration. (Crossing Europe Filmfstival)

Keywords

  • Austrian Films
  • Location: Vienna
  • community
  • filmdelights
  • migration
  • work

Director

  • Judith Benedikt

Documentary, Independent


1h 31min


16+

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Austria
2014
Documentary about the first and second generation of Chinese migrants, stranded mainly in the country's Asian restaurants.

Documentary about the first and second generation of Chinese migrants, stranded mainly in the country's Asian restaurants.


Film director Judith Benedikt embarks on a journey following first and second-generation immigrants from China in Austria, who are mainly stranded in Asian restaurants in the city and in the countryside.


After half a century of migration, mainly in one direction, there is a new current flowing back to the East thanks to the economic boom in China. Gradually a new generation is emerging that has to face the fact that Chinas current boom can also create new opportunities for them. One of the protagonists – a father, who already built up a whole empire of Asian snack stands and restaurants in Vienna – dares the leap back to China, to establish a chain of typical Viennese coffee houses there. Backwards migration. (Crossing Europe Filmfstival)

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