Daughter
from Danang (USA; 75min.)
directed by:
Gail Dolgin; Vincente Franco
documentary
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Daughter
from Danang (USA; 75min.) |
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| Michael says: "This heart-rending film looks at a Vietnamese-American girl, taken from her mother at the age of 7 and air-lifted to the United States near the end of the VietNam War. She is adopted by a single woman in Tennessee, and raised as an American girl.While her birth-mother spends the subsequent years regretting the loss of her daughter, Heidi becomes estranged from her adopted-mother during college and starts to think about her birth mother. Finally, after 22 years, mother and daughter are reunited in Viet Nam. The results, at first joyous and rewarding, swiftly and suddenly become a case of cultural differences and misunderstandings. This amazing film won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at Sundance this year." 4 cats |