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- Loading Docs 2017 - East Meets East
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- NZ On Screen
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Director Julie Zhu's love letter to a Chinese East Auckland community follows her grandmother as she carries out what may seem a mundane task — grocery shopping. But to Fang Ruzhen, her daily ritual of buying food is what connects her to several other aged Chinese grandparents, who hop on buses in large groups to head to the supermarket. Ruzhen moved to New Zealand nearly 20 years ago to help look after her grandson. Now she is 79 and can barely speak any English. "Going shopping every day…w...
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- Video
- Date created
- 2017
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- nz on air / immigration / chinese / elderly / east auckland / mandarin / grandparents / english / grandchildren / isolation / shopping / loneliness / new zealand on air / nz film commission / new zealand film commission / te mangai paho / te māngai pāho / immigrant / public transport
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