Leaving to Remain (2022) is a Czech/British/Slovak film by Mira Erdevički, filmed by the first British Roma crew exploring the experience of emigration and Roma heritage.
Three Roma living in Britain but tied to central Europe film themselves over a critical period as their lives are transformed by the combination of Brexit and Covid. All three face the universal dilemmas of emigrants: an ambivalent yearning for their home country and an ambition to succeed in their adopted home. Yet all three are conscious of their particular Roma heritage, a community that is almost never depicted on screen.
Followed by Q&A with director Mira Erdevički and the main film protagonists Denisa Gannon, Petr Torák and Ondrej Oláh.
Part of London Migration Festival
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