In this intimate portrayal of the lives of workers migrating away from home to the city in Vietnam, a young woman goes to the zoo to meet ex-boyfriends, and a married teacher has a secret relationship with a security guard.
Two young squids learn to defend themselves...
Tân, a Vietnamese student in Paris, has tuberculosis. He is hospitalized in a university sanatorium in the Parisian suburbs. Far from his family, who can no longer support him because of the First Indochina War, he continues to work nightshifts as a musician in restaurants and cabarets. His Vietnamese friends don't realize that he lives in abject poverty, in a world apart.
"No Gods, No Masters" quotes the slogan championing independent thought used by anarchists, feminists and workers in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. The video juxtaposes images and sounds recorded at various locations in Vietnam and features two appeals expressed by two supposed ghosts: one is hearable via an audio production by the 6th Psychological Operations Battalion (PSYOP) of the US-Army during America's war in Vietnam, which was intended as a weapon to weaken the fighting morale of the Vietcong, distributed via loudspeakers over their supply routes. The other ghost makes herself heard using Sung Tieu's aunt as her medium.
Porcupine helps his friend Rabbit sew a shirt
The first Vietnamese animated film, based on a polemical poem from Ho Chi Minh.
The Jade Emperor and his divine council try to figure out what is causing problems on Earth
Two best friends who get separated have to cross a river to find each other
