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"With Pride" is only viewable for audiences watching from North America. Spring Will Come contains sexuality and viewer discretion is advised.
This set, in keeping with longstanding Viet Film Fest tradition, reflects upon the diversity of sexuality and gender across the Vietnamese diaspora. Queer filmmakers share their childhood and family with us in Thời Thơ Ấu (Childhood), Hi Ading, and Mę Con (My Mom). In Mę Con and Thoi Tho Au (Childhood), we get intimate documentaries by queer filmmakers exploring their parents’ histories and journeys. Hi Ading gives us a tender visual poem of the filmmakers’ parents. In Spring Will Come, we experience sapphic heartbreak in Saigon as a DJ comes to terms with the end of a relationship. Viv’s Silly Mango, in a radical tonal contrast to Spring Will Come, a pre-teen girl comes to terms with her identity while being supported by her riot grrrl band. Across these short films, we find queer joy, heartbreak, and community told with their own voices.
By Chenglin Lee
Would she smile, knowing the tender care my mother puts into growing bitter melons? Mẹ Con intimately portrays the relationship between a Vietnamese woman, the plants she grows, and memories of her mother. Through an experimental lens, the short film explores family archives as well as created memories within the garden through film photography.
- Year2023
- Runtime12:08
- LanguageVietnamese
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorMelanie Dang Ho
"With Pride" is only viewable for audiences watching from North America. Spring Will Come contains sexuality and viewer discretion is advised.
This set, in keeping with longstanding Viet Film Fest tradition, reflects upon the diversity of sexuality and gender across the Vietnamese diaspora. Queer filmmakers share their childhood and family with us in Thời Thơ Ấu (Childhood), Hi Ading, and Mę Con (My Mom). In Mę Con and Thoi Tho Au (Childhood), we get intimate documentaries by queer filmmakers exploring their parents’ histories and journeys. Hi Ading gives us a tender visual poem of the filmmakers’ parents. In Spring Will Come, we experience sapphic heartbreak in Saigon as a DJ comes to terms with the end of a relationship. Viv’s Silly Mango, in a radical tonal contrast to Spring Will Come, a pre-teen girl comes to terms with her identity while being supported by her riot grrrl band. Across these short films, we find queer joy, heartbreak, and community told with their own voices.
By Chenglin Lee
Would she smile, knowing the tender care my mother puts into growing bitter melons? Mẹ Con intimately portrays the relationship between a Vietnamese woman, the plants she grows, and memories of her mother. Through an experimental lens, the short film explores family archives as well as created memories within the garden through film photography.
- Year2023
- Runtime12:08
- LanguageVietnamese
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorMelanie Dang Ho