The Danish/Thai documentary: Heartbound 'a different love story', is a documentary about marriage migration of Thai women to a small village in Denmark. After the cinema, this special film can now also be seen on TV. On Wednesday, February 20 at 22.55:2 p.m. on NPO XNUMX.
More than nine hundred Thai women who are married to Danes live in northern Jutland. This remarkable trend started 25 years ago when Sommai, a former Thai prostitute, married Niels from Jutland. Since then, Sommai has matched lonely Jutish men with poor Thai women from her hometown.
Award-winning director Janus Metz (Armadillo, Borg McEnroe) and his wife, the anthropologist Sine Plambech, followed four of these Thai-Danish couples for ten years. The result is an intimate and gripping chronicle about love and romance, dreams and misfortunes, life and death and what the concept of family means in various cultures.
Heartbound is winner of the Golden Eye Award for Best Documentary, Zurich International Film Festival 2018 and selected for the world premiere TIFF 2018 and for IDFA 2018.
'A loving, intimate film that undermines all the easy judgments you might have made beforehand about this kind of arranged marriage.' – The Green Amsterdammer.
I have seen two previous documentaries about Thai-Danish relations in this village, very worthwhile. Definitely watch.