
Love in its various forms – whether everlasting, in pursuit of it, or absent – binds each of the films presented in this set. Deception – borne out of love or in search of it – plays out to darkly comedic effects in The Family Circus and Supermarket Affairs. Separations of significant others, voluntary and otherwise, result in unexpectedly deeper connections in Je suis là (I Am Here) and Little Parrot. And in Ripen (Trưởng Thành), a father and daughter renew their ties despite the barriers, emotional and physical, that separate them. An unexpected love at first sight almost fifty years ago forms the basis for Sleepless in Saigon. In sum, the films comprising “All You Need is Love” exemplify love at its most maddening and its most rewarding. – Eric Nong
Erik (25), living in Germany is expecting aunt Thu (54) to flying over from Vietnam to pick up Minh's stuffs, who was her son as well as Erik's late boyfriend, after Minh passed away. Aunt Thu wants to bring Minh's ash urn back to Vietnam but Erik is not ready for that. To Vietnamese, LGBTQ+ is still not widely accepted. So aunt Thu is even more resistant against Erik.
- Year2022
- Runtime18 minutes
- LanguageVietnamese
- CountryViet Nam
- DirectorNano Nguyen
- ScreenwriterNano Nguyen
- ProducerUy Nguyen
- CastAlex Junge, My Nga Kiessling
- CinematographerDaniel Salfert
- EditorNano Nguyen
- Production DesignLuong Ha
Love in its various forms – whether everlasting, in pursuit of it, or absent – binds each of the films presented in this set. Deception – borne out of love or in search of it – plays out to darkly comedic effects in The Family Circus and Supermarket Affairs. Separations of significant others, voluntary and otherwise, result in unexpectedly deeper connections in Je suis là (I Am Here) and Little Parrot. And in Ripen (Trưởng Thành), a father and daughter renew their ties despite the barriers, emotional and physical, that separate them. An unexpected love at first sight almost fifty years ago forms the basis for Sleepless in Saigon. In sum, the films comprising “All You Need is Love” exemplify love at its most maddening and its most rewarding. – Eric Nong
Erik (25), living in Germany is expecting aunt Thu (54) to flying over from Vietnam to pick up Minh's stuffs, who was her son as well as Erik's late boyfriend, after Minh passed away. Aunt Thu wants to bring Minh's ash urn back to Vietnam but Erik is not ready for that. To Vietnamese, LGBTQ+ is still not widely accepted. So aunt Thu is even more resistant against Erik.
- Year2022
- Runtime18 minutes
- LanguageVietnamese
- CountryViet Nam
- DirectorNano Nguyen
- ScreenwriterNano Nguyen
- ProducerUy Nguyen
- CastAlex Junge, My Nga Kiessling
- CinematographerDaniel Salfert
- EditorNano Nguyen
- Production DesignLuong Ha