Synopsis
At the beginning of the 1960s, Loan, a young Vietnamese woman, and Pierre, her husband, a Eurasian who has French nationality, arrive in France for the first time and are welcomed in a small village in Auvergne as part of a resettlement program of French people from Indochina. Loan is convinced that their situation is temporary and that she will rapidly return to Vietnam.
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Actors (18)
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- Executive Producer : Respiro Productions
- Film exports/foreign sales : Manifest
Full credits (18)
- Executive Producer : Amélie Quéret
- Screenwriter : Stéphane Ly-Cuong
- Director of Photography : Alexandre Icovic
- Music Composer : Clovis Schneider
- Assistant Director : Nicolas Guilleminot
- Editor : Tuong-Vi Nguyen Long
- Sound Recordist : Benjamin Feuillade
- Costume designer : Sami Bedioui
- Executive Producer : Amélie Quéret
- Voice : Cyril Romoli
- Assistant Operator : François Belin
- Production Manager : Nicolas Novak
- Sound Editor : Roman Dymny
- Continuity supervisor : Céline Breuil-Japy
- Production Designer : Apostolos Skourtis
- Special Effects : Steven Gaborieau, Gianni Manno
- Make-up Artist : Cindy Pibeaud
- Sound Mixer : Roman Dymny
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Psychological drama, Portrait
- Themes : Emigration, Family
- Production language : French, Vietnamese
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2018
- Runtime : 20 min 43 seconds
- Visa number : 149.457
- Visa issue date : 23/01/2019
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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