Seabirds
2022
Synopsis
Over an intimate conversation whilst cooking with her grandmother, eight year-old Nithya learns of the tie between heritage and food and how new borders cut her Chettiar family off from their childhood home.
Editorial
In Sawera Jahan’s mouth-watering animated short, the preparation of a seemingly ordinary dish comes to represent the history of migration between Singapore, Myanmar, and India. Against the twists and turns of time, the loving act of passing on recipes doubles as a crucial form of oral storytelling.
