Your childhood home is drowning and you're not there to save it.
In an uncertain future where Vietnam is on the verge of being submerged in water, a son, far away from home, remembers his family. By way of cinematic magical transformations, trivial stories and banal images suddenly become unreal, as if reflections of something beyond reality.
Cinematography
Water as character—lakes, floods, tears, all merging into one liquid grief.
Direction
Quý directs his own parents; reality bends because the lens loves them.
Editing
Magical transformations that feel found, not forced—banal to sublime.
Director
Trương Minh Quý
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Vietnamese cinema rarely addresses climate change so personally; this film emerged from diaspora filmmakers reimagining homeland through distance and dread.
Quý cast his actual parents as fictionalized versions of themselves, blurring the mirror until audience cannot locate the seam between document and dream.
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