500 anni fa la nazione di Kumandra univa popoli differenti sotto il pacifico presidio dei Draghi. Finché i Druun, entità malvagie, non si sono diffusi tra gli uomini, agevolati dalla loro cupidigia e discordia, finendo per trasformare ogni forma vivente in pietra. Solo il sacrificio dei Draghi permise all'umanità di salvarsi: il segreto del loro potere è rimasto racchiuso in una gemma magica, unica arma di difesa contro i Druun. Oggi Kumandra non esiste più, divisa tra nazioni belligeranti, che corrispondono ad altrettante "parti" del drago: Zanna, Artiglio, Cuore, Dorso e Coda. Raya, principessa di Cuore, prova a tendere la mano verso Namaari, giovane figlia della regina di Zanna, ma la fiducia in quest'ultima porterà a una terribile disgrazia e al ritorno dei Druun.
Un soldato parte dopo aver salutato il figlio nella culla, nato il giorno prima. Il colonnello fa pregare i suoi cinque bambini a tavola. Prima della grande partenza saluta la moglie che dorme ed esce con passo spedito. Lei si sveglia, corre fuori in camicia da notte ma lui è già lontano.
Poiché la loro ultima missione non è andata a buon fine, Ray e Ken, due killer a pagamento, vengono allontanati da Londra dal loro capo, Harry, in modo da far calmare le acque. I due trovano riparo a Bruges, in Belgio, dove si recano per un paio di settimane a fare i turisti. Durante il loro soggiorno nella cittadina, Ray e Ken incontrano una serie di bizzarri personaggi e per il problematico Ray, il destino ha in serbo anche un incontro d'amore. Tuttavia, quando Harry si rifarà vivo, la vacanza spensierata dei due killer prenderà una svolta decisamente rocambolesca.
Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnamese daughter, Camille, set against the backdrop of the rising Vietnamese nationalist movement.
Marcel Marx, un ex scrittore rinomato e bohemien, volontariamente si trasferisce in esilio nella città portuale di Le Havre, dove la sua professione onorevole, ma non redditizia, di lustrascarpe, gli dona la sensazione di essere più vicino alla gente. Mantiene viva la sua ambizione letteraria e conduce una vita soddisfacente nel triangolo formato dal pub dell'angolo, il suo lavoro e sua moglie Arletty, quando il destino mette improvvisamente nella sua vita un bambino immigrato proveniente dall'Africa nera.
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.