Synopsis
In the underground coal mines, Nam and Viet, young miners, face danger and darkness. One prepares to leave for a new life, but they must find Nam’s father’s remains, a soldier lost in a faraway forest, retracing the past through memories.
Filmmaker
Minh Quy Truong
He is the alumnus of 2012 Asian Film Academy (Busan International Film Festival) and 2016 Berlinale Talents. His films have been selected for international film festivals and exhibitions such as Locarno, New York, Clermont-Ferrand, Oberhausen, Rotterdam or Busan. His second feature film, The Tree House, premiered in Locarno Film Festival. In 2021, his French language film, Les Attendants, competed for the Berlinale Golden Bear shorts. In 2024, he premieres his third feature film, Viet and Nam, at the Festival de Cannes in Un Certain Regard.
Filmography: Viet and Nam (2024, D'A 2025), Porcupine (short film, co-directed, 2023), We Sit In Silence At The Memorial Table (short film, 2022), The Men Who Wait (short film, 2021), Death of a Soldier (short film, 2021), The Tree House (2019), The Sublime of Rectum (short film, 2018), How Green the Calabash Garden Was (short film, 2016), The City of Mirrors: A Fictional Biography (2016), Déjà vu (short film, 2014), Mars in the Well (short film, 2014), Someone Is Going to Forest (short film, 2013)
Awards and festivals
Silver Screen Award for Best Direction
FIPRESCI Award
Poster
