« Je ne suis pas chinetoque » : Histoire du racisme anti-asiatique (2024)

7.8/10 • 89 min • Documentary TV Movie

Overview

Journalist Émilie Tran Nguyen invites the viewer to follow her in her quest and discover, at the same time as her, the historical origins of this anti-Asian racism. Told in the first person, alternating archive images, interviews with historians, sociologists and field sequences, this film traces the making of prejudices in the French imagination and pop culture, to twist the neck of stereotypes, deconstruct and act.

Cast

Émilie Tran Nguyen

Herself : Interviewer / journalist / Voiceover

Gurvan Kristanadjaja

Himself : Journalist of newspaper Libération

Julie Hamaïde

Herself : Founder of Koï (media)

Isabelle Le

Herself : Communications Director

Cathy Nguyen

Herself : Midwife

Frédéric Chau

Himself : Author / Actor / Comedian / Humorist / Director

Pascal Blanchard

Himself : Historian

Grace Ly

Herself : Journalist / Writer

Daniel Tran

Himself : Honorary President of the AJCF (Association des Jeunes Chinois de France)

Kitty Space

Herself : 1st Asian Drag Queen / Woman transgender = Woman ♀️ : Kiara 🏳️‍⚧️ (deceased first name : Antoine)

Nhat-Nam Nguyen

Himself : Professor

Sun Lay Tan

Himself : Spokesperson for the "Sécurité pour tous" Committee

Joohee Bourgain

Herself : Professor

Soc Lam

Himself : Lawyer

Franz-Olivier Giesbert

Himself : ex Director of Publication of newspaper Le Point / Author / Editorialist / Journalist / Writer

Simeng Wang

Herself : Sociologist, research fellow at the CNRS

Madeleine Mariani

Herself : Retired

Constance Rivière

Herself : Director General of the Museum of Immigration History

Recommendations

Daguerréotypes

The Bus: A French Football Mutiny

The Making of Star Wars

The Class of ‘92

This Changes Everything

Varda by Agnès

Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition

I Am Not Your Negro

Bambi: A Tale of Life in the Woods

John Candy: I Like Me

March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step

That's Entertainment!

The Walking Dead: The Return