Bem-vindos de novo
Welcome Back, Farewell
Brazil // 2021 // Documentary // LOS FEATURES
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Parents and children are reunited after 13 years apart. This is the starting point of Welcome Back, Farewell, a documentary that follows the emotional process of rebuilding a family, that is part of a culture of family separation known as the dekassegui phenomenon.
Director: Marcos Yoshi
Producer: Meus Russos
Documentary
Portuguese with English subtitles
105 minutes
Only available to audiences in Pennsylvania.
MARCOS YOSHI was born in 1985, in a small rural town with a strong presence of the Japanese community. He moved to the capital São Paulo to study Audiovisual at the University of São Paulo. There, he directed the fiction short films “Aurora” (2010), “Acordairis” (2011) and his graduation film “Quando o Céu Desce ao Chão” (2012), screened and awarded on the university festival circuit. Since 2016, he has been working on essay film research, and shortly after finishing his master's degree, in 2018, he joined the doctorate at the same university. In 2020, he premiered the fic-doc hybrid short “Aos Cuidados Dela”, a spin-off project that expands the universe of his debut feature film, “Bem-Vindos de Novo | Welcome Back, Farewell”.