Viet and Nam
A FILM BY Minh Quy Truong
PRODUCTION GRANT - FALL 2020
Nam and Việt are coal miners, working 300 meters below ground, where danger awaits, darkness prevails. Nam doesn’t want his future to continue with coal and hires someone to smuggle him to the western world.
Before leaving, Nam goes on a journey with Việt and his mother, who claims that Nam’s father (a northern Vietnamese soldier) calls out in her dreams to find his missing body. Ultimately, their journey is fruitless and Nam and Việt return to the mines which collapses due to a relentless rain, trapping them. Nam suddenly sees his soon-to-be future, smuggled in the container of a truck, locked in the dark, in the heat, suffocating just the same. Nam and Việt lie side by side, shirtless, it’s too hot. They breathe, slowly. The sea, endlessly.