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No crying at the dinner table - Prix du jury - Un film court de Carol Nguyen - Film Complet

Carol Nguyen · Canada · Documentary · 16 min · 5.5K views

Directed by Carol Nguyen · Starring Thao Nguyen-Duong · 2019

Filmmaker Carol Nguyen gently questions her Vietnamese-Canadian parents and sister about the grief and memories the family has never talked about, bringing long-held silences to the dinner table.

An intimate, beautifully composed family portrait in which unspoken grief finally surfaces, quietly devastating and deeply relatable.

Carol Nguyen est une cinéaste vietnamo-canadienne installée à Montréal, au Canada. Ses parents ont immigré au Canada depuis leur Vietnam natal en quête d'une vie meilleure pour leurs enfants. Mais la famille a traversé d

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