Việt and Nam
Singapore Premiere
Trương Minh Quý Philippines, Singapore, France, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Vietnam 2024 129 min R21 (Homosexual Theme and Nudity)
A lyrical queer love story of two coal miners facing imminent separation, with a touch of magic realism.
Nam and Việt love freely and passionately—though only in the inky depths of a coal mine. Separation looms as Nam plans to leave the country via a trafficker, but he must first help his mother locate the remains of her husband who was lost to the Vietnam War. Led by dreams and memories, they venture into fossilised pasts, exhuming personal and collective histories to process trauma and loss. Meanwhile, coal dust accumulates in bodies and blackens rivers.
Shot on 16mm stock, with an arresting cinematography at times otherworldly, the lyrical film straddles the real and the imagined. This is a story of two lovers torn apart by tragedy, but also that of a people still contending with the horrors of war and struggling to move on.
Q&A with Filmmaker(s), Audience Choice Award
5 Dec, Thu 7:30PM / 129 min
Golden Village Cineleisure, Hall 1
Q&A with Filmmaker(s), Audience Choice Award
8 Dec, Sun 11:00AM / 129 min
Oldham Theatre
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Việt and Nam
Việt và Nam
Trương Minh Quý
Philippines, Singapore, France, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Vietnam
2024
Vietnamese
English
129 min
R21 (Homosexual Theme and Nudity)
Singapore Premiere
Trương Minh Quý
The work of Vietnamese filmmaker Trương Minh Quý draws from childhood memories and the history of his home country. His sophomore feature, The Tree House (2019), premiered at Locarno and was screened at SGIFF. His 2021 short film, The Men Who Wait, won Best Southeast Asian Short Film at the 32nd SGIFF. Việt and Nam, his third feature, premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard.
Phạm Thanh Hải,
Đào Duy Bảo Định
Bradley Liew,
Bianca Balbuena
