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VAFF 19

Nov 8: Program 8 Canadian Doc Spot - Going Home Again

Can you go home again? The documentaries in GOING HOME AGAIN attempt to answer the question—following Fonki, a graffiti artist from Montreal, and Hanggai, a Mongolian folk band—as they use the creative process to parse their sense of displacement, and to interpret their complex relationship with the concepts of home and identity. Both “The Roots Remain” (a Canadian premiere) from Canadian filmmakers Andrew Marchand-Boddy and Jean-Sébastien Francoeur, and its preceding short doc, “Away From The Grasslands” by USA-based filmmaker Khalid Ali, are moving, coming-to-terms films about the quest for belonging—the former through inhabiting the past, the latter by crafting the future.


  1. Away From The Grasslands

    Khalid Ali / Nov 8: Program 8 Canadian Doc Spot - Going Home Again / USA / 2014 / Documentary / 28 mins
    An intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the ethnic Mongolian band, Hanggai, as they gather in Beijing, China to record their new album, “Back to You.”

    Precedes: The Roots Remain


  2. The Roots Remain

    Andrew Marchand-Boddy, Jean-Sébastien Francoeur / Nov 8: Program 8 Canadian Doc Spot - Going Home Again / Canada / 2014 / Documentary / 77 mins
    In an emotional tribute, Montreal graffiti artist Fonki returns to Cambodia to paint a giant mural of his relatives killed in the Khmer Rouge genocide.

    Preceded by: Away From The Grasslands