
Children of the mist
Di is 12 years old and lives in the mountains of Northern Vietnam. With her family, she awaits the festivities of the Lunar New Year, during which Hmong men kidnap young girls so they can marry them. In attempting to understand this ritual from another time, the filmmaker Ha Le Diem s torn between respect for a culture and the violence of a tradition.
Vietnam, 2021, 92 min
Production: Varan Vietnam
Language: Hmong, Vietnamese
Direction: Ha Le Diem
Director of photography: Ha Le Diem
Sound: Akritchalem Kalayanamitr
Producers: Swann Dubus, Tran Phuong Thao