Familiefilmen 'Raya og den sidste drage' følger den ensomme kriger Raya fra fantasy-riget Kumandra. Raya slår sig sammen med en gruppe udskud i sin søgen efter at finde den sidste drage og bringe lys og harmoni tilbage til deres verden. Fantasy-eventyret kommer til at have et tema som håb, hvilket er inspireret af de smukke og forskelligartede kulturer i Sydøstasien.
Vietnam, 1965. Hal Moore og hans tropper fra det syvende kavaleri blev smidt ud fra helikoptere over La Drang Valley med en simpel opgave. Find fjenden og dræb ham. Imidlertid bliver tropperne straks omringet af 2000 nordvietnamesiske soldater.
Et job er gået galt og nu brænder jorden under lejemorderne Ray og Ken's fødder. Derfor sender deres chef Harry dem til den belgiske by Brügge, hvor de venter på deres næste opgave. Ken forelsker sig hurtigt i den lille middelalderby, mens Ray hader byens søvnige idyl. Da opkaldet fra Harry endelig kommer, har den kønne Chloë dog gjort Ray mere varm på opholdet. Men hvad har Harry på hjerte?
Eliane ejer en gummiplantage i 1930'ernes Indokina, hvor hun bor sammen med sin adoptivdatter Camille. Eliane falder for den smarte søofficer Jean-Baptiste, men han vil hellere have Camille, der gengælder følelserne. Som hævn sørger Eliane for af Jean-Baptiste bliver sendt en afsides ø, men Camille følger efter på egen hånd.
”Miraklet i Le Havre” er et moderne eventyr om Marcel Marx, der har lagt det flyvske bohemeliv som forfatter bag sig og nu ernærer sig mere jordnært som skopudser ved togstationen i franske Le Havre. Her lægger store containerskibe dagligt til kaj, og da et af dem en dag viser sig at rumme en uventet fragt i form af en flok afrikanske flygtninge, vendes der med ét op og ned på Marcels stille liv: Mens hans kone bliver alvorligt syg, sætter den godhjertede gavflab alt ind på at sørge for, at en lille afrikansk dreng, der undslipper havnevagtens lange arm, bliver genforenet med sin familie i London.
Adapting to her new home in Melbourne, Vietnam War immigrant Hanh (9 years old) mistakes the cunningness of her new “friends” as an act of kindness, forcing her to come to terms with the reality of human betrayal through the loving and tender guide of her family - especially her father, Quan.
The Vietnamese German Huong, equipped with her small video camera, documents her life before moving out, exploring her relationships with friends, family, places and objects that she leaves behind. A poetic snapshot of her person, addressed to her father.
My Thu, an immigrant of Vietnamese origin who had to flee her country during the war, faces an eviction order from her Montreal apartment. In the midst of a battle against gentrification, she needs her daughter's help.
The young girl chooses a life on social media for the safety she has created for herself. She hates her name Snow White because to her, she is not a princess. She ran into a friend and he gave her a different perspective on how to look at life.
The film is set in the winter-spring battle that lasted 60 days and nights from late 1946 to early 1947 in Hanoi, the story follows the militiaman Van Dan and his love story with the piano-loving lady Thuc Huong. When others had evacuated to the war zone, they decided to defend the capital that had been devastated by bombs and bullets, despite the dangers that awaited them.
As queer trans and gender non-conforming children of the Vietnamese diaspora, we are fragmented at the crossroads of being displaced from not only a sense of belonging to our ancestral land, but also our own bodies which are conditioned by society to stray away from our most authentic existence. Yet these bodies of ours are the vessels we sail to embark on a lifetime voyage of return to our original selves. It is our bodies that navigate the treacherous tides of normative systems that impose themselves on our very being. And it is our bodies that act as community lighthouses for collective liberation. Ultimately, the landscape of our bodies is our blueprint to remembering, to healing, to blooming.
Maarit is a girl who never believes in love until she truly accepts it.
Hanoise is a portrait of the little known, but very rich, experimental music scene from Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. It showcases a diverse array of the city's musical mavericks and avant-garde explorers, merging the sounds of the city and the experimentations of a young community braving the local cultural prohibitions.
A Vietnamese woman, Thuy, is married to a Korean man and lives with her in-laws in rural Korea. One day, her gambling-addict husband is killed in a motorcycle accident. The woman gets suspicious because her husband was not even able to ride a bicycle. She wants to investigate her husband's death, while the villagers find her annoying
This film follows the lives of undocumented Vietnamese workers in Taiwan doing odd jobs to survive, after having been forced to flee their employers due to harsh working conditions and lack of medical care. How will living this way for more than a decade shape their lives?
A trans Vietnamese woman's deadname being repeated over and over again.
An absurd game of “finding happiness” is being played by local Latvian coyotes* and illegal immigrants on the Russian and the European Union border. It is a game with no winner – all participants are driven to play by the sense of despair. While one side leaves home and undertakes a perilous journey to the other side of the globe, hoping to spend the rest of their lives in a free country, the other side risks their freedom to earn a chance to stay right where they are, in their homeland. *coyote – someone who smuggles illegal immigrants
47 Days, Sound-less by Vietnamese artist Nguyễn Trinh Thi is a film that explores the relationships between sound and silence, vision, language, colours and their absence. Nguyễn identifies “peripheries”—including natural landscapes used as backdrops, uncredited characters and soundtracks from American and Vietnamese movies—that reveal more-than-human perspectives. Offering new ways of looking and listening, 47 Days, Sound-less invites audiences to reflect on the inextricable relationship between a place and its inhabitants.
Thach Thao is a beautiful girl with an angelic beautiful voice, and the first time she sang on stage at Itango Club, Thao immediately caught the eye of a music producer named Son. Then, she was invited to cooperate in filming a music video called "A Fragile Flower". After the music video was released, Thach Thao became a renowned singer. She is beautiful, talented, so many men love her. Then, which man will Thao's heart belong to? And what is the dangerous disease that she encountered?
A mysterious death in the border town of Varnsdorf brings together a cynical detective and a young idealistic police officer. Their investigation leads them to the local Vietnamese community, which is bound by rigid rules and complicated relationships.