We cordially invite you to join the screening of the film Home, Elsewhere by Megha Wadhwa. After the film screening, there will be a discussion with the filmmaker.

Date: August 18
Time: 4 pm
Venue: Institute of Japanese Studies (Arnimallee 10, Room 010). 

About the film:

Home, Elsewhere follows Karan, a Gen Z migrant from India navigating his life in Berlin. What begins as a chance encounter with the filmmaker—an anthropologist who left India 20 years ago—evolves into a four-year long-term observation of Karan’s migrant life in transition. From the structured world of a student fraternity to a more fluid, international university life, Karan’s journey unfolds alongside other young migrants shaping their own paths. The film reflects on distance, belonging, and the shifting meaning of home through moments of cooking, celebrations, and conversations. The film quietly observes a generational continuity, interwoven with the filmmaker’s own migration story nearly two decades after she left India, concluding between love for home and the realities that continue to push its youth to leave.

Length: 47 minutes; Language: English, Hindi, German; Subtitles: English

Megha Wadhwa, Ph.D. is a filmmaker, anthropologist, and author based in Japan, where she works as an Assistant Professor at Sophia University.