Miss Little China
Director Vincenzo de Cecco, Riccardo Cremona
Countries
Duration 60 min
Synopsis
Five aspiring beauty queens, five ordinary families of migrants. Between restaurants, textile factories, import export wholesalers. A trip through Italy following their traces. Only to discover that, between excruciatingly wearing shifts, the mothers we believed were working machines, get moved to tears in talking about their daughters. The same daughters who are certain only of one thing: they don’t want to repeat their parent’s tiresome life. First and second generations facing each other. And Italians on the side who, forced to compare themselves with Chinese immigrants suddenly find that they are tired, dispirited, frightened and resentful - in fact it's easier to fear the 'other' than to come to terms with yourself.
Five aspiring beauty queens, five ordinary families of migrants. Between restaurants, textile factories, import export wholesalers. A trip through Italy following their traces. Only to discover that, between excruciatingly wearing shifts, the mothers we believed were working machines, get moved to tears in talking about their daughters. The same daughters who are certain only of one thing: they don’t want to repeat their parent’s tiresome life. First and second generations facing each other. And Italians on the side who, forced to compare themselves with Chinese immigrants suddenly find that they are tired, dispirited, frightened and resentful - in fact it's easier to fear the 'other' than to come to terms with yourself.