Passing Tides
Passing Tides (18 minutes) is the story of Linh Vu who escaped Vietnam by boat with her father in the 1970s. Linh, her father and the other passengers were picked up by a British boat just as they were running out of food and water. They were taken to a refugee camp in Singapore and then to Sopley and Thorney Island on the south coast of Britain. Linh and her father settled in Hackney and were joined by Linh’s mother and siblings five years later.
The film uses Linh’s drawings to illustrate her journey and settlement in the UK.
'It was very moving and with parallels with today’s refugee crisis'.
Response by viewer to Passing Tides
'I actually cried and I think the combination of harrowing details… and the blending of domestic and international news throughout was just right'.
Response by viewer to Passing Tides
'The film was brilliant – the story so cleverly told and illustrated with very evocative art and photographs’.
Response by viewer to Passing Tides
'Really love the final version… Very powerful & quite emotional (especially the stats at the end re number of boat people who died)'.
Linh Vu who arrived, aged seven, from Vietnam in 1979