Viêt and Nam
Feature-length Film in Post-Production
Runtime
Year May 2024
Nam and Viêt love each other. Both are miners, working 1000 meters below ground, where danger awaits and darkness prevails. Nam's mother collects coal waste from the mines to make briquettes at her makeshift workshop. Coal earns them a living, while polluting the land and the sea. Nam, like other young people, has decided to leave the country soon. In his village, many families get out of poverty thanks to the money they receive from relatives working abroad, most of them illegal immigrants — underground money. Through a relative, Nam gets in touch with an agent who can smuggle people abroad in containers. But at that moment, Nam's father, a soldier who died in the war, comes back in his mother's dreams to tell her where he died. Nam, his mother and Viêt go south to the old battlefield, following her dreams, to find the remains of his father.
Director Truong Minh Quy
Producers Bianca Balbuena,
Bradley Liew
Press
Square Eyes Boards Vietnamese Drama ‘Cu Li Never Cries’ Ahead of Berlinale Premiere, Trailer Debuts
— Leo Barraclough, Variety
Introducing Viêt and Nam
— IFFR
TorinoFilmLab awards co-production fund award to Truong Minh Quy’s ‘Viet And Nam’ (exclusive)
— Ellie Calnan, Screen Daily