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Join us to watch Bem-vindos de novo / Welcome back, Farewell (2021), Wednesday February 4th at 5:00 PM, in 1070 Humanities Gateway.
Director: Marcos Yoshi
Country: Brazil
Release Year: 2021
Genre: Documentary
Language: Portuguese with English Subtitles
Runtime: 105 min
Synopsis: Parents and children reunite after 13 years apart. This is the starting point of “Welcome Back, Farewell”, a documentary that follows the emotional process of rebuilding a family, that is part of a culture of family separation known as the Dekasegi phenomenon, which is a term that is used in Brazil to refer to people, primarily Japanese Brazilians, who have migrated to Japan, having taken advantage of Japanese citizenship or nisei visa and immigration laws to work short-term in Japan.