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.
Rewards, festivals and diffusions
36th Jean Rouch International Festival
States General of Documentary Film
Festival Millenium
Bobines Sociales
International Women Film Festival
Cinéma du Réel
Festival international du film vietnamien
Festival Cinémekong
Rencontres des films courts
États Généraux du Film Documentaire
Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire
Astra Film Fest
Étoiles et toiles d'Asie
Festival international Cinéma des peuples Ânûû-rû âboro
IFCinéma, platform of the French Institute
National Science and Documentary Film Studio of Vietnam
Hanoi Cinematheque
Franco-Japanese Institute of Tokyo
Documentary Film Month
Media library of the Quai Branly Museum
Thao Tran Thi Phuong
Vietnamese director and translator
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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Nine workshops were set up in Viêtnam since 2004 in Hanoï, in Da Nang and in Hô Chi Minh city. In 2016, a workshop is organized by former trainees who became independant filmmakers.
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