What Remains, Passes Through Our Hands Workshop

A cooking workshop exploring memory, grief, and connection.

By Sophia Liu, Kübra Sarı and Ngọc Anh Phan

Inspired by a selection of short films, we will cook Qingtuan and halva together, two dishes of remembrance from different cultural contexts. Through cooking, sharing, and sensory experiences, we will create a space for memories, conversation, and quiet connection.

The workshop is aimed at BiPoC and (post-)migrant individuals who are processing grief. Participants are welcome to express themselves in a language of their choosing.

Sign up form link: https://forms.gle/JnD2K5KW1L4TXbgs9

Sophia Liu is a cultural practitioner, cultural studies scholar, and cultural consultant. She focuses on archives, educational mediation, and memory practices in the context of migration.

Kübra Sarı (she/her) is a communications professional with a background as a pastry chef and social worker, currently participating in the SİNEMAplural Film Mediation Fellowship at SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA.

Ngọc Anh Phan (they/them) is a Berlin-based graphic designer working across storytelling, typography, and photography, exploring diasporic and queer memory through an archival lens. 

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Baştankara
Kübra Varol, Turkey, Germany, 7 min. Turkish and English with English subtitles

Unfamiliar Familiar
Hae-Sup Sin, South Korea, Switzerland, 28 min. Korean and German with English Subtitles

SÈT LAM
Vincent Fontano, France, Reunion Island, 23 min. 2023, Réunion Creole with English Subtitles

Baştankara, Unfamiliar Familiar, and SÈT LAM explore home, loss, and belonging across borders and generations. Kübra Varol's film captures the layered reality of being a survivor, migrant, and non-binary individual, holding both gratitude for home and acknowledgment of its limits. Hae-Sup Sin's film follows a Swiss-Korean woman returning to South Korea to process her mother's death, reflecting on grief and familial expectations. Vincent Fontano's film centers on a young girl paralyzed by fear of losing loved ones, finding solace in a folktale about fighting death. Together, these films form a triptych on navigating identity and the places that shape us, even when they may not fully welcome us back.