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In The Philippines, women get deployed abroad to work as domestic workers or nannies. To do so, they frequently leave their own children behind, before embracing this big unknown. In a learning center dedicated to the domestic work, several candidates prepare themselves for homesickness and for the abuses that they will possibly endure. In role playing exercises, they play the worker's role as well as the one of the employer. The documentary Overseas brings to light the question of domestic slavery in our globalized world, while emphasizing those women's determination, their sisterhood, and the strategies they find to face the obstacles that awaits them in the near future.
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The Film Stage by Leonardo Goi
Overseas is a harrowing story of resilience, an elegy of people pushed to the margins, whom Yoon restitutes as dignified and strong-willed fighters, in a work that dances between reality and fiction to an engrossing extent.
The Hollywood Reporter by Neil Young
The most sympathetic, illuminating study of domestic labor since Roma.
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
It is hauntingly sad.
The New York Times by Devika Girish
With a fly-on-the-wall approach, the movie allows the center’s cruel contradictions to accumulate with a slow burn.
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