WESTWÄRTS: SÜDOSTASIATINNEN IN DER BRD
WESTWARDS: SOUTHEAST ASIAN WOMEN IN THE FRG

DE 1990 | Director, Editing: Susanne Wycisk | Screenplay: Susanne Wycisk, Siriporn Skrobanek (Foundation for Women Thailand) | Camera: Gabi Hinderberger, Wolfgang Kriener | Music: Band Caravan | Production: Southeast Asian Information Center Bochum, Foundation for Women Thailand | Colour | DCP | 50 min | German version with english SUB | Digitalisation: Jorg Michels (Avantmedia)

©Susanne Wycisk
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Acronyms
amer. American English
b/w Black and white
OV Original version
SUB Subtitles
+SUB electronic live subtitling (below the image)
INT Intertitles
Countries
AT Austria
FRG Federal Republic of Germany (historic)
BLR Belarus
DE Germany
CAN Canada
GDR German Democratic Republic (historic)
EGY Egypt
FR France
GB Great Britain
URY Uruguay
BRA Brasil
SWE Sweden
UKR Ukraine
PL Poland
IDN Indonesia
PRT Portugal
HRV Croatia
ECU Ecuador
HUN Hungary
AUS Australia
IT Italy
MEX Mexico
IND India
HAVE YOU EATEN ?

DE 2024 | Director: Mon Sisu Satrawaha | Screenplay: Mon Sisu Satrawaha | Camera: Ricardo Preciado Devia | Editing: Yollamon Thongrueng | Music, Sound: Margarida Albino | Production: Mon Sisu Satrawaha, Bauhaus University Weimar | Colour | DCP | 33 min | thai, german OV with english SUB

©Mon Sisu Satrawaha
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Acronyms
amer. American English
b/w Black and white
OV Original version
SUB Subtitles
+SUB electronic live subtitling (below the image)
INT Intertitles
Countries
AT Austria
FRG Federal Republic of Germany (historic)
BLR Belarus
DE Germany
CAN Canada
GDR German Democratic Republic (historic)
EGY Egypt
FR France
GB Great Britain
URY Uruguay
BRA Brasil
SWE Sweden
UKR Ukraine
PL Poland
IDN Indonesia
PRT Portugal
HRV Croatia
ECU Ecuador
HUN Hungary
AUS Australia
IT Italy
MEX Mexico
IND India

The screening is followed by a talk (in English) with Susanne Wycisk, Tippawan Duscha and Mon Sisu Satrawaha. Moderated by: Sarnt Utamachote

Susanne Wycisk

Susanne Wycisk is a teacher, researcher and political activist who worked from 1984 to 1993 at the Southeast Asia Information Center (Südostasien Infostelle, Bochum) on issues of women rights in the region. She joined the network Against International Sexual and Racist Exploitation (AGISRA) and supported migrant women-led organisations in Bochum such as MONA (1985) and MIRA (2000). For 25 years she taught at a secondary school in Bochum. She is the director of a bicultural film team with the Foundation for Women, Thailand, as a partner for the documentary "Westwärts" (1989/90).

Tippawan Duscha

Born in Thailand and based in Darmstadt since 1976, she studied Social Administration at Thammasat University and trained as a Public Relations consultant in Germany. Since 1989, she has worked as a certified translator and interpreter for Thai and German. Her career spans roles in municipal administration, co-founding the intercultural women’s project AGISRA in Frankfurt, leading educational initiatives, journalism, and teaching at FH Frankfurt. Most recently, she served as PR officer at the Heinrich Böll Foundation RLP. Her expertise includes migration, gender, racism, interreligious dialogue, human rights, and intercultural communication.

Mon Sisu Satrawaha (ม่อน ศิศุ สาตราวาหะ)

Mon Sisu Satrawaha (ม่อน ศิศุ สาตราวาหะ) is a multidisciplinary filmmaker, artist, and curator whose practice moves fluidly across film, installation, performance, and food. Her work engages with themes of anthropology, intercultural relations, and contemporary culture, often drawing from personal and collective narratives. Since 2022, Satrawaha has developed the ongoing project Have You Eaten?, which explores the political and emotional landscapes of the Thai female diaspora in Germany. As part of the same project, she created the performance Somtam Manifesto, presented in various contexts, including at Gropius Bau during the closing program of DAS GLÜCK IST NICHT IMMER LUSTIG, an exhibition by Rirkrit Tiravanija. In 2025, she has joined forces with Chōri Collective to create a performance as part of the Live Works fellowship at Centrale Fies

Sarnt Utamachote (ษาณฑ์ อุตมโชติ)

Sarnt Utamachote (ษาณฑ์ อุตมโชติ) is a Southeast Asian nonbinary filmmaker and curator in Berlin. They curated the exhibition “Young Birds From Strange Mountains” at Schwules Museum 2025 and “In Nobody’s Service” at Galerie Wedding 2024, dealing with traces of queer shamans and women and sex workers migration from Southeast Asia to Germany. They furthermore research about exiled Cambodian artists who studied in East Germany, resulting as part of exhibition "Echoes of Brother Countries" HKW Berlin 2024 and "Dislocations-within reach" Kunst Raum Mitte 2025. They are co-founder of the collective un.thai.tled. They work as a film programmer for XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin, Short Film Festival Hamburg and Sinema Transtopia (now with the program "The past is not another country" with the German Film Museum Frankfurt). Their short film “I don’t want to be just a memory” premiered at the 74th Berlinale 2024.

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