Holding Silence (2019)

Three artisans from Asian decent - a martial artist, a pastry chef and an animator - find In the focus of their crafts the silence, who invites each of them on a journey along their family history line. After a seemingly random phone call martial arts teacher Kierty Verbooy connects with his long lost Indian father, who helps him making sense of his life's choices and innate need for balance. The realistic pastry chef Hoang is destined to take over the family business in Vietnamese pastry. But in the focus of her work she longs for a quietness and tries to deal with the vast ambitions of her mother. Animation director Yiuloon finds connection with his deceased father through his animations about Chinese lion dancers. Reflecting on his two children, he is committed to create a more outspoken relationship than the one he grew up in.