Baby Jackfruit Baby Guava
Southeast Asian Premiere
Nông Nhật Quang Vietnam, South Korea 2026 105 min R21 (Homosexual Content)
With humour and heart, a queer filmmaker turns the camera on his family, revealing how love, identity and belonging are reshaped in contemporary Vietnam.
Long-buried tensions, unspoken identities and unresolved love have shaped filmmaker Nông Nhật Quang’s family for years. When a new chapter in his older sister Mai’s life begins, the fragile balance that has held the family together starts to shift, prompting Quang to turn the camera towards his kin.
Believing that filmmaking can open conversations where words have failed, Quang retraces his changing bond with Mai, reflects on his own journey as a gay son, and gently navigates the fraught relationship between his mother and sister. Intimate and deeply compassionate, Baby Jackfruit Baby Guava invites audiences into a Vietnamese family who are learning to give voice to years of silence.
The film assembles family photographs, diaries, phone recordings and home videos into a vibrant first-person documentary where memories collide with the present. With candid observation, sharp humour and queer exuberance, Nông embraces the camera not as a tool of objectivity but as a way of speaking to his loved ones. An emerging voice in Vietnamese queer cinema, he captures a generation negotiating greater LGBTQ+ visibility in a society where the hardest conversations still begin at home.
Synopsis Writer: Hsieh I-hsuan
Standpoint, Q&A
22 Oct, Thu 6:00PM / 105 min
Golden Village Cineleisure, Hall 1
Standpoint, Q&A
25 Oct, Sun 4:15PM / 105 min
Filmhouse, Redrum
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Baby Jackfruit Baby Guava
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Nông Nhật Quang
Vietnam, South Korea
2026
Vietnamese
English
105 min
R21 (Homosexual Content)
Southeast Asian Premiere
Nông Nhật Quang
Nông Nhật Quang is a Hanoi-based filmmaker whose work explores family, memory and queer life in contemporary Vietnam. His short documentaries include Our Queer History (2019), An Invisible Marriage (2024) and Kinktimacy (2025). Baby Jackfruit Baby Guava, his documentary feature debut, premiered at Visions du Réel where it won the Special Jury Award in the Burning Lights Competition.
Trang Đào,
Sarah Kang,
Oh Hee-jung