The Journey of Vaan Nguyen
by Duki Dror
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Actor: Vaan NguyenHoimai NguyenDirector: Duki Dror
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 82 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-01
Studio: Zygote Films
Movie Reviews of The Journey of Vaan Nguyen
Movie Review: A complex journey
Summary: 4 Stars
I loved this film and its subtlety of emotions. The film follows Va'an and her father back to Vietnam to reclaim their ancestral lands and the journey is not exactly what they expected. I would have loved to see more of Va'an and her family's life in Israel and the complexities in their daily lives.
Summary of The Journey of Vaan Nguyen
Duki Dror, one of the most innovative young directors in Israel today, reveals the absurdities of Vaan Nguyen s life as an Israeli-born Vietnamese. Her father was one of the many boat-people who fled Vietnam after the fall of Saigon in 1975 and was given asylum in the Israel as part of the international effort to save Vietnamese refugees who escaped the war. Now, the Nguyens have decided that it is time to return to go their home in Vietnam, and try to reclaim their confiscated lands. Their journey becomes a parable on the loss of identity and on the fate of refugees. Duki Dror, a son of an Iraqi refugee who can never return to his homeland, deals in his films with the rights of minorities, refugees and immigrants by sharing their narratives of expulsion, detachment, and the desperate search for a lost identity. Through the characters in his films, Dror deals with his family's past and his own complex identity. The story of Vaan, as well as Dror's other films, is the story of longing, the need to test the sense of belonging, and the constant feeling of foreignness. "My constant quest is to better understand and define the complex modern identity" says Dror. "I see myself as a researcher of the human dilemmas that mushroom in the society decades after the generals finish their devastating wars and conquests. This film is my journey too, if not back to my father s homeland, then back in my inner conscious as is reflected in the story of Vaan and her father".Documentary DVD Video
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