Section: Women's roles in socialism and beyond

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Love, Dad

Diana Cam Van Nguyen

CZ, 2021, 13 Min

A young woman tries to get in touch with her father. She could never quite forgive him for leaving the family. Would he have stayed if she had been a boy and not a girl?

Drehbuch
Diana Cam Van Nguyen, Lukáš Janičík

Kamera
Kryštof Melka, Matěj Piňos

Schnitt
Lukáš Janičík

Ausstattung
Diana Cam Van Nguyen, Darjan Hardi

Musik
Viera Marinová

Darsteller
Linh Duong, Hong Nhung The Thi, Hoai Trung Le

Produzent
Karolína Davidová

Produktion
13ka

Co-Produktion
Tomáš Šimon, FAMU

Diana Cam Van Nguyen - Diana Cam Van Nguyen (*1993, Czech Republic) is a Czech-Vietnamese director based in Prague. She did internships in Birmingham and Lyon and participated as artist inresidence in Vienna Museum Quartier. Her bachelor film Malá / The Little One (2017) won several awards at festivals and competed for ECFA Doc Award at Berlinale 2019. Her next short film Spolu sami / Apart (2018) internationally premiered at IFF Rotterdam 2019 in the section Voices shorts, competed at Annecy, BFI London Film Festival and was a finalist for BAFTA Student Film Award 2019. Her current short Love, Dad (2021) premieres in Locarno Film Festival in Pardi di domani section. Diana studies animation master programme at FAMU in Prague. In her works she focuses on personal topics through the means of animated documentary.

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