Our daily interactions with family and strangers range from lowkey to combative, banal to poignant. These films take a magnifying glass to the fraughtest of these junctures, those which expose culture clashes and class divisions. In igniting these moments, they reveal how those in our closest physical proximities are often the furthest away.
Living on a shoestring budget in Montreal, a Vietnamese mother must act in bad faith to assert her right to buy 12 discount laundry detergents that she's been refused at a grocery store.
- Year2024
- Runtime18 minutes
- LanguageFrench, Vietnamese
- CountryCanada
- DirectorLaurence Ly
- ScreenwriterLaurence Ly
- ProducerLaurence Ly, Koussay Hamzeh
- CinematographerGuy-Carl Dubé
- EditorNamaï Kham Po
Our daily interactions with family and strangers range from lowkey to combative, banal to poignant. These films take a magnifying glass to the fraughtest of these junctures, those which expose culture clashes and class divisions. In igniting these moments, they reveal how those in our closest physical proximities are often the furthest away.
Living on a shoestring budget in Montreal, a Vietnamese mother must act in bad faith to assert her right to buy 12 discount laundry detergents that she's been refused at a grocery store.
- Year2024
- Runtime18 minutes
- LanguageFrench, Vietnamese
- CountryCanada
- DirectorLaurence Ly
- ScreenwriterLaurence Ly
- ProducerLaurence Ly, Koussay Hamzeh
- CinematographerGuy-Carl Dubé
- EditorNamaï Kham Po
