Synopsis

Toan and Ngah fill in job application forms, go to interviews but fail to get work. Dinh talks about the working conditions in the international corporations which have set up in Vietnam and voices her demands. Thao films Toan and Ngah during these long days of waiting while they encourage and comfort each other. They talk about their hopes and disappointments, the lack of money and love.

Themes : Youth Urban life Work
Keywords : Worker Job hunt Solidarity Precarity
Shooting place : Vietnam
Shooting format : DV Cam

Rewards, festivals and diffusions

Festival Millenium

Place : Bruxelles (Belgium)
Date : 2013

Bobines Sociales

Place : Paris (France)
Date : 2008

Internationales Frauen Film Fest

Place : Dortmund (Germany)
Date : 2008

Cinéma du réel

Place : Paris (France)
Date : 2007

Festival international du film vietnamien

Place : Université de Californie d'Irvine (USA)
Date : 2007

Festival Cinémekong

Place : Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
Date : 2007

Rencontres des films courts

Place : Hanoï (Vietnam)
Date : 2007

États Généraux du Film Documentaire

Place : Lussas( France)
Date : 2007

Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire

Place : Montréal (Canada)
Date : 2007

Astra Film Festival

Place : Sibiu (Romania)
Date : 2007

Étoiles et toiles d'Asie

Place : Lyon (France)
Date : 2007

Festival international Cinéma des peuples Ânûû-rû âboro

Place : Poindimié (New Caledonia)
Date : 2007

Musée du Quai Branly

Place : Paris (France)

IFCinéma (plateforme de l'Institut français)

Place : World

Studio national du film documentaire et scientifique du Vietnam

Cinémathèque de Hanoï

Place : Hanoï (Vietnam)

Institut franco-japonais de Tokyo

Place : Tokyo (Japan)

Mois du Film Documentaire

Place : France

Festival International du Documentaire de création

Place : La Rochelle (France)
Date : 2013

Festival International Jean Rouch

Place : Paris (France)
Date : 2017

Etats généraux du film documentaire

Place : Lussas (France)
Date : 2019

Cinéma du réel

Place : Paris (France)
Date : 2023

Thao Tran Thi Phuong

Director

Born in 1977 in Vietnam, Tran Phuong Thao initially studied foreign trade and interpretation in Hanoi. In 2002, she moved to France to fulfil her dream of being a documentary filmmaker. After graduated in Political Science in Paris, she studied documentary film technics and writing in Poitiers University. Back in Vietnam, she joined different Varan Vietnam workshops since 2005 as translator, trainee, then tutor. She directed ==Workers Dreams== which attended many international festivals and was awarded at the Cinema du Reel 2007. Since 2011, she has directed several documentary projects in collaboration Swann Dubus including ==With or whithout me== - White Goose Award at DMZ Docs 2012, and ==Finding Phong== - Grand Prix Nanook- Jean Rouch at 34th International Festival Jean Rouch 2015. Their work examines the human dimensions of the grand themes in Vietnam's rapidly changing society.

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