4th adventure with the director Pham Ngoc Lan. After 3 collaborations on short films, this was his first feature film. Lan is a director who pays particular attention to sound. A work full of finesse and delicacy. This work was rewarded with the prize for best first feature film at the 72nd Berlinale.

Synopsis

Mrs Nguyen returns to Vietnam with an urn containing the ashes of her German ex-husband and her pet Cu Li, a dwarf loris primate. As her niece prepares for her wedding, she embarks on a journey down memory lane…

Technical specs – IMDB

Fiction – Drama – Feature Film – 1h32 – Vietnam

Productions : Acrobates Films (France) – An Nam Films (Vietnam) – Purple Tree (Singapour) – Epicmedia (Philippines) – Ape & Bjorn (Norway)

Director : Pham Ngoc Lan
Casting : Minh Chau – Xuan An Ngo – Ha-Phuong – Kieu Trinh
DOP : Linh Dan Nguyen Phan – Nguyen Vinh Phuc – Vu Hoang Trieu
Editor : Julie Béziau
Sound department : Arnaud Soulier – Bruno Ehlinger – Vu Thanh Long

Awards & Selections – IMDB

Release dates – IMDB