Editor
Di is a 12-year-old girl from the mist-shrouded mountains of northern Vietnam. She belongs to the Hmong, an ethnic minority in which girls get married at a very young age. This is often preceded by a controversial “bride-napping,” where the girl is abducted by her future husband on New Year’s Eve. Negotiations between the families follow. This also happened to Di’s sister and their mother, so it doesn’t seem strange that in preparation the women and girls discuss sex and married life without embarrassment. But Di also goes to school, where she learns very different values. And in her own way, even Di’s mother tries to warn her daughter about child marriage.
Cinematography
Documenting the transformation of Bưởi Road in Hanoi, from a labyrinth of houses and small businesses to a highway, with demolition crew destroying buildings - some still inhabited, gleaners looking for metal scraps to sell for a living, and people living on the edge of this crowded road finding a way to keep on living.
Director
Documenting the transformation of Bưởi Road in Hanoi, from a labyrinth of houses and small businesses to a highway, with demolition crew destroying buildings - some still inhabited, gleaners looking for metal scraps to sell for a living, and people living on the edge of this crowded road finding a way to keep on living.
Director of Photography
Phong creció en un pequeño pueblo en el centro de Vietnam, el menor de seis hijos. Desde que era un niño, Phong sintió que era una niña con el cuerpo de un niño que no coincide. No fue hasta que se mudó a Hanoi para ir a la universidad a los 20 años cuando Phong descubrió que no era el único en el mundo con esta situación. Su sueño de "encontrarse a sí misma" cambiando físicamente el sexo se convierte en realidad varios años después. La película sigue la lucha de Phong durante estos años, con extractos de un íntimo diario de video, junto con encuentros con familiares, amigos y médicos, todos los cuales deben aceptar la determinación de Phong para convertirse en una chica completa.
Director
Phong creció en un pequeño pueblo en el centro de Vietnam, el menor de seis hijos. Desde que era un niño, Phong sintió que era una niña con el cuerpo de un niño que no coincide. No fue hasta que se mudó a Hanoi para ir a la universidad a los 20 años cuando Phong descubrió que no era el único en el mundo con esta situación. Su sueño de "encontrarse a sí misma" cambiando físicamente el sexo se convierte en realidad varios años después. La película sigue la lucha de Phong durante estos años, con extractos de un íntimo diario de video, junto con encuentros con familiares, amigos y médicos, todos los cuales deben aceptar la determinación de Phong para convertirse en una chica completa.
Cinematography
Thi and Trung live in the gorgeous, rice-terraced mountains of Vietnam’s far northwest. Like many young men in this region on the main heroin route from Laos to China, they’re addicts, and they have HIV. Thi wants to kick his habit. Trung just wants to die. “With or Without Me ” is an intimate, tragicomic portrayal of two guys strung out at the edge of the map of a country struggling with drug use, and of the wives, family, doctors and friends trying to pull them back from the brink.
Writer
Thi and Trung live in the gorgeous, rice-terraced mountains of Vietnam’s far northwest. Like many young men in this region on the main heroin route from Laos to China, they’re addicts, and they have HIV. Thi wants to kick his habit. Trung just wants to die. “With or Without Me ” is an intimate, tragicomic portrayal of two guys strung out at the edge of the map of a country struggling with drug use, and of the wives, family, doctors and friends trying to pull them back from the brink.
Director
Thi and Trung live in the gorgeous, rice-terraced mountains of Vietnam’s far northwest. Like many young men in this region on the main heroin route from Laos to China, they’re addicts, and they have HIV. Thi wants to kick his habit. Trung just wants to die. “With or Without Me ” is an intimate, tragicomic portrayal of two guys strung out at the edge of the map of a country struggling with drug use, and of the wives, family, doctors and friends trying to pull them back from the brink.
