Yuko Kuhn - Onigiri

In the organizer's words:

When Aki learns that her grandmother has died, she books two flights. She wants to take her mother to her family in Japan one last time, even though she knows how risky it is to tear a person with dementia away from their familiar surroundings. And she has never really experienced Keiko as lost as she did that first night in the hotel. But then they sit down to dinner in her parents' old house and suddenly she, who has become so quiet, speaks cheerfully and clearly for herself. It is only on this journey that Aki recognizes in her mother the courageous and life-hungry woman that she once was, before this great weariness, so threatening to Aki, settled over her in Germany. With gentle clarity, Yuko Kuhn tells the fascinating story of a German-Japanese family that gets lost between cultures and finds itself anew.

Moderation: Libuše Černá