Viet and Nam - Movie - Festival QUEER

Viet and Nam

Truong Minh Quý
Fiction : 129' / Gay, Trauma, Romance, Conflict

Nam and Viet love each other. Both are miners, working one thousand meters below ground where danger awaits, and darkness prevails. Coal earns them a living, while polluting the land and the sea. When Nam decides to leave the country via an agent who smuggles people in shipping containers, it causes a rift between his love for Viet and the desires for his own future.

/ EXHIBITION

Lisboa

September 23 | 19h00 | Cinema São Jorge - Sala Manoel de Oliveira Buy Tickets

Sections: QL - Feature Film Competition
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/ Details

Year: 2024

Country: Vietnam

Language: vietnamese

Subtitles: english and portuguese

With: Phạm Thanh Hải, Đào Duy Bảo Định, Nguyễn Thị Nga, Lê Viết Tụng

/ Direction

Truong Minh Quý

Thailand

Truong Minh Quý was born in Buon Ma Thuot, a small city in the central highlands of Vietnam. His narratives and images, lying between documentary and fiction, personal and impersonal, draw on the landscape of his homeland, childhood memories, and the historical context of Vietnam. He was alumni of the 2012 Asian Film Academy (Busan International Film Festival) and of the 2016 Berlinale Talents.

Filmography

2024 - Viet and Nam (Feature Film)

2023 - Porcupine (Short Film)

2022 - We Sit in Silence at the Memorial Table (Short Documentary)

2021 - Les attendants (Short Film)

2020 - Death of Soldier (Short Documentary)

2019 - The Tree House (Documentary)

2018 - The Sublime of Rectum (Short Documentary)

2016 - How Green the Calabash Garden Was (Short Documentary)

2016 - The City of Mirrors: a Fictional Biography (Feature Film)

2014 - Mars in the Well (Short Film)