I met my mother for the first time when I was 11, then she disappeared again. Later I recognised her again in a magazine. I wasn’t sure if that was really my mother, so I looked up her birth certificate. Only then did I learn that my mother was Yeh Su Nee, one of Hong Kong’s most successful writers, whose novels filled entire shelves in bookshops. Until now, I had successfully pushed my mother out of my life; shouldn’t it go on like this? Wasn’t it too late for a 44-year-old with a child of his own to track down his 65-year-old mother whom he doesn’t even know and flood her with questions? I certainly want to find her and try to imagine her voice. How nervous will I be when I call her? I’ll probably say something like, “Hi, it’s Bin Chuen Choi, your son. Do you want to meet?” But how will she react to that? Maybe she will refuse to see me; maybe she will say, “It took you so long to call. Let’s go eat dim sum, I know a good place in town.”

Book + Director: Bin Chuen Choi
Camera + Cut: Thomas Ladenburger
Dramaturgical advice: Cornelia Klauß
Producers: Gunter Hanfgarn + Andrea Ufer
Sponsored by: BKM, Nordmedia, Medienboard

Semaine de la critique, Locarno Filmfestival (Schweiz)
DOK-Fest Leipzig
New Berlin Film Award