Your Bros: Dorm (2021) screening + talk | Sine Screen

Date: Sun 9th Nov 2025 14:00

Venue: BLOC cinema, Arts One Building, Queen Mary University, 327 Mile End Rd, Bethnal Green, London, E1 4NS

Ký Túc Xá (Dorm) Screening + Talk

Dir. Your Bros. Filmmaking Group | Taiwan | 2021 | 54min

In April 2018, hundreds of Vietnamese female migrant workers took to the streets in Taiwan, denouncing the cramped and unsanitary conditions of their dormitories, poor diet condition, and the lack of basic necessities. This rare collective protest, live-streamed by the workers, reverberated across Taiwan and Vietnam, exposing the systemic neglect that shapes migrant life.

It was this moment that inspired Dorm (2021), Your Bros invited Vietnamese workers to participate in workshops, where their stories were re-enacted, and expanded through performance. The resulting film examines the dormitory not only as an architecture but as a contested social space—one where labour, gender, and power converge, and where new forms of solidarity and meaning can be forged.

Founded in 2017 by artist So Yo-hen, architect Tien Zong-yuan, and art historian Liao Hsiu-hui, Your Bros 你哥影视社 embodies an irreverent, down-to-earth filmmaking ethos rooted in decentralised collaboration and collective care.

Across their three feature-length works, the group interrogates migrant experience through the politics of space: from temporary shelters, re-constructed dormitories to the layered geographies of Tainan Park. Combining field research, participatory workshops, and collective storytelling, their artistic practice is situated within the material and social realities of migrant labour.

The screening will be followed by an online talk with the filmmaker So Yo-hen around migrant rights in Taiwan and Your Bros' collaborative work with the migrant communities.

Presented as part of an event series exploring the complexities of migrant labour in East & Southeast Asia and the diaspora

Whose Homeland

The event is part of Whose Homeland presented by Sine Screen, a film season that explores migration, displacement and marginalised lives in East & Southeast Asia and the diaspora. The programme will be running until March 2026, with the support of the BFI, awarding National Lottery funding. Find Out More.

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