”Tomorrow You Will Leave” by Director Martin Nguyen
Hanoi: Thu 12 Jun 2014, 6.30 pm
National Studio for Documentary and Scientific Film
465 Hoang Hoa Tham, Hanoi
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HCMC: Sun 29 Jun 2014, 6.30 pm
Hoa Sen University
8 Nguyen Van Trang, Dist 1, HCMC
From & Of Other Things:
Interview: Martin Nguyen talks about the very personal story depicted in his latest documentary Tomorrow You Will Leave due to be shown at the closing night of 6th European-Vietnamese Documentary Film Festival.
There are points in life, at least in the lives of some people, that are perfect film material. Moments full of suspense, where life is open to unexpected twists of fate. Leaving a home behind, to build a new life, is one such point. Especially if to reach that new life you had to travel thousands of miles, to cross the sea in a small open boat. To travel from Vietnam and to end up in Austria.
This is the story of the family of Martin Nguyen, an Austrian filmmaker of Vietnamese origin, a story he chronicles in autobiographical documentary Tomorrow You Will Leave.
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The film follows Martin and his father’s journey to Malaysia to find a man called Ali who had been instrumental in the history of their family. A man who had helped them move from the refugee camp in Pulau Bidong, where Martin was born in 1980, to where they live today. In looking for Ali, and in delving back into their past, the film traces Martin’s parents’ journey from South Vietnam in 1979, via Malaysia to their life today as farmers in a tiny mountain village in Lower Austria.
& Of Other Things spoke to Martin about discovering his family history, the deception of memory and about being different. Click here to the read the interview on & Of Other Things.
Free entrance to all screenings.
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