Banana Pancakes and the Children of Sticky Rice [SOLD OUT]
VIEW EVENT DETAILSMargaret Mead Film Festival Presentation
Part of the 2015 Margaret Mead Film Festival
Co-presented by Margaret Mead Film Festival and Asia Society
Theater 3
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th Street
New York, NY
Dir. Daan Veldhuizen | 2015 | 93 minutes | Netherlands, Laos
New York Premiere | Director in Attendance
As the monsoon rains lift, a remote village in northern Laos transforms from a sleepy hamlet into a tourist hotspot in a story that harkens back to Dennis O’Rourke’s classic, Cannibal Tours. Western backpackers arrive searching for less modernity and more authenticity, yet feast on banana pancakes—a Western delicacy paradoxically served by the local Laotians. Daan Veldhuizen films at the crossroads of these two groups and produces a delicate meditation on how we relate to others in a rapidly globalizing world. As the narrative evolves, he takes a more participatory role in the film, realizing that documentary-making, like tourism, is never an invisible presence.