Screening of “With or Without Me”

Thu 12 Jan 2011, 7.30 pm
Cinematheque

From FVH:
You are invited to a film screening “With or Without Me” by Friends of Vietnam Heritage. A work partnered by Phương Thảo Trần (Vietnamese) and Swann Dubus (French), the film won Planète Rouge 2011 award by Marseille International Film Festival 2011 and was featured at Torino Film Festival 2011.

Thi and Trung live in the lush, rice-terraced mountains of Vietnam’s far northwest territory of Điện Biên. Like many young people in this region (which is on the main heroin route from Laos to China), they are addicts and are also HIV positive. Forced to live a life marked by the efforts of family members, friends and doctors to keep them away from drugs, Thi wants to kick his habit but Trung just wants to die.

Showing the daily struggle of living with drugs and the devastating consequences of addiction, the camera becomes a part of their existence and reveals how their ‘habit’ destroys their hopes and dreams. Through showing the destinies and tragedy of two individual lives, the film sheds a light upon a wider unfolding story about drug use in Vietnam and, in doing so, it hopes to contribute to the debate about how best to tackle this issue.

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitle

Cost: 100,000 VND
Limit: 90 people
To Register: Thu, [email protected];

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