The Returning Tide
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The Returning Tide: Thirty Years On
— the story continues here.
About The Returning Tide:
Thirty Years On
The film revisits more than twenty feminist activists from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China to trace the lasting impact of the 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing across East Asia. It follows the connections forged during the conference, examines gender mainstreaming frameworks, and explores the rise of grassroots, queer movement and digital rights alongside the backlash these activists now face. Through these intertwined stories, the film continually asks what sustains such struggles and how feminist movements persist, transform, and evolve across generations and regions.
Screenings Schedule
3/08
Tokyo
3/12
Vancouver
Thirty years ago
—if time could turn back.
What would you do?
We would like to invite you to leave your trace, and share your story with us about the World Conference on Women.
About Drifting Collective
Drifting Collective is a transnational, intergenerational feminist–queer collective that works across image and text to build solidarities rooted in witnessing and mutual empowerment.