Overview of articles
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A Time Far Past
Film version of a famous novel about 1950s Vietnam made with much feeling for the period. We follow the young Sai who, at the age…Published on: -
Buffalo Boy
A Vietnamese water-buffalo drama (no, that isn’t a genre, yet) with the power of a western. A young man has to combat wild and watery…Published on: -
Big in Vietnam
Diop, who won a Tiger Award in 2010 with her short Atlantiques, has two new films including this mysterious tale of a director who gets…Published on: -
Je vis dans le rêve de ma mère
The film is the dream of the real mother of the maker, about a young dark filmmaker who travels through many European and Asian countries…Published on: -
Tro’ Vé
Highly praised film by one of Vietnam’s most important directors about Loan (who is in love with her colleague’s brother) who meets an old schoolfrienPublished on: -
Adrift
In the big city chaos of Hanoi, two newlyweds have to come to terms with life before they can be together. Atmospherically filmed reconnaissance of…Published on: -
The new bosses
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Ao dai
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Yamabuki
A quietly radical story in which the lives of a teenaged protestor, a Korean migrant worker, and others intersect in rural Japan.Published on: