Monsoon

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SCREENING

At the French Institute:

SAT 12/06 : 5 pm
FRI 18/06 : 10 pm

Title: Monsoon
Direction: Hong Khaou
Cast: Henry Golding, Parker Sawyers, David Tran, Molly Harris
Production: BloomerApp Media Production
Distribution: Protagonist Pictures
Genre: Drama
Duration: 85’
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 2019

O.V. in Vietnamese and English. Subtitles in Spanish and Catalan

Festivals: Athens, Dublin (Far East cinema), Karlovy Vary, London (BFI Flare, LGBT), Los Angeles (OutFest, LGBT), New York (NewFest, LGBT), GLAAD Awards (USA), San Francisco (Frameline, LGBT), Seattle, Sundance, Taiwan (Golden Horse), Virginia (USA)

First showing in Spain

Kit, a young British Vietnamese man, returns to his birth country for the first time in over 30 years. He was just eight years old when he and his family escaped Saigon as ‘boat refugees’ during the Vietnam-American war. No longer familiar with this country and unable to speak his native language, Kit embarks on a personal journey from Saigon to Hanoi, in search of a place to scatter his parents’ ashes. Along the way he meets his estranged family and falls for Lewis, an American whose father had fought in the war. During his travels, Kit finally starts to connect to the memories of his parents and his own roots.

Film preceded by the short: