Alphabet. The space between us and the unkown

The film stems from a reflection on the legacy of the Cold War on Asian diaspora communities in the West, while also exploring the artists’ personal relationship with Berlin’s Vietnamese community—composed of two groups of people who arrived from a divided country to a divided country, and thus particularly symbolic of this legacy. By portraying their experience as Italian adoptive parents of a daughter and a son born in Vietnam, the artists explore the intersection of belonging, kinship, history, memory, and identity politics. The film documents a performance in an urban setting: traveling on a small boat, the artists and their family spend an intimate day in a public space, navigating Berlin’s city traffic in search of an imaginary place where the lives of those who have been divided by history might ideally come together.