Films by Susanne Mi-Son Quester

Germany 2021, 35 min
by Mieko Azuma, Susanne Mi-Son Quester

Chao (25) was born in Japan as son of a Chinese woman and has lived in Switzerland since she was five. It was clear early on that she was not a "normal" boy, but actually a girl. Now Chao would like to take the step and have a surgery to become a biological woman. But Chao is not only worried about her gender reassignment. She is a talented illustrator and wants to enter art college in Zurich. In her pictures and drawings, Chao expresses her longings, memories and dreams.

Germany 2018, 65 min
by Mieko Azuma, Susanne Mi-Son Quester

Five people between the ages of 10 and 84 talk about why they had to leave their home and what it was like to arrive in Germany. What is different? What do they miss? Between scenes of daily life at the new school and on the football ground the lives that Ahmad, Frau Schiller, Leila, Lena and Cacau left behind and the stories of the flights they lived through come alive in animated sequences. (DOK.Leipzig, Marie-Thérèse Antony)

2017, 78 min
by Susanne Mi-Son Quester

The film takes us on a journey to Paju, a town on the border between North and South Korea. There we follow the German-Korean filmmaker, whose family once fled from North Korea to the South, as she encounters the inhabitants of Paju. These include: a tour guide, who daily escorts foreign tourists to the border; a North Korean refugee who only recently fled to the South; and a young editor who publishes books on North Korea, although the topic is of little personal interest to him. In its encounters with these residents, the film renders a perceptive portrait of a country whose division has left a deep imprint in the lives of its inhabitants.

Germany 2010, 11 min
by Susanne Mi-Son Quester

Eiki has been attending the Japanese school in Düsseldorf for one year now. Previously, he went to a German school. At the Japanese school the teachers never fall sick and they are much nicer. And Japanese food tastes better, too. However, Eiki is a little sad that his family might move to Japan soon - even if that is not yet certain...