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If I Had Two Lives
Follows a young girl from her childhood in a military camp in 1990s Vietnam, where her mother is in hiding as a political dissident, to her adulthood as a lonely and disillusioned immigrant in New York, where she must learn what it means to love and be loved, and to reconfigure home in the aftermath of ruins.
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Mobilizing an Asian American Community
Using historical materials, ethnographic fieldwork, and interviews, Linda Trinh Võ traces the political strategies that enable Asian Americans to bridge ethnicity, generation, gender, language, and class differences, among others.
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No Crying at the Dinner Table
Filmmaker Carol Nguyen interviews her own family to craft an emotionally complex and meticulously composed portrait of intergenerational trauma, grief, and secrets in this cathvisual artic documentary about things left unsaid.
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On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unevisual arths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into pvisual arts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation.
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Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora
Syndicated columnist Andrew Lam explores his identity as a Viet Kieu – a Vietnamese native living in the United States.
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