Chinaman is set in a Chinese takeaway in the north of England, 1989. When a group of customers turn hostile, a father and his eldest son are forced into a confrontation that exposes everything they cannot say to each other. A BFI-funded short film written and directed by Chinese-British filmmaker Rob Chiu, and drawn from his own childhood, Chinaman is an unflinching portrait of inherited grief, racial hostility, and the cost of belonging nowhere.
The Coronado Island Film Festival (CIFF) welcomes makers and lovers of film from all over the world to the storied seaside village of Coronado, California to celebrate the magical art of visual storytelling. Coronado’s enduring love affair with Hollywood began more than a century ago.