DIIS migration research on BBC

BBC Documentary has bought and premiered Senior Researcher Sine Plambech’s film HEARTBOUND.

HEARTBOUND is based on Sine Plambech’s ethnographic research and follows the migration of four women from Thailand leaving their impoverished village for Denmark. At first, these stories seem straightforward, Asian women looking for a way out of poverty, but a different, more complex story unfolds.

The film is a longitudinal study of migration over ten years exploring universal questions of migration, belonging and family. A tale of migration and globalisation set on the intimate stage of marriage. It seeks to show the perspectives and counter narratives of women migrants and in its review, The Guardian called it a ‘fascinating documentary…a paean to the universality of love’.

HEARTBOUND had its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), North America’s largest film festival and has among multiple prizes been awarded 'Best Film' by the American Anthropological Association.

The film is co-directed with Janus Metz and based on Sine Plambech’s research project Women, Sex & Migration – Seeing sex work migration and human trafficking from the Global Southfunded by The Danish Research Council – FKK.

Further funded by The Danish Film Institute, DR, European Council -Eurimages,The Swedish Film Institute, Netherland’s Film Fund and Production Incentive, Nordisk Film & TV Fund and VPRO.

It was broadcasted on BBC February 17th and is available for streaming on BBC for the next six months: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000flgx