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Homes, Memories, Perceptions: Ethnic Minorities and the Scars of War in Vietnam— ’The Tree House,’ dir. Trương Minh Quý, 2019

A poetic yet informative journey across the unconventional homes of Vietnamese ethnic minorities becomes a rumination on belonging, displacement, and weaponized alienation

September 14th, 2020|Country: Cor People, Jarai People, Ruc People, Vietnam|

The Magnificent Pencil Pushers: The Planet’s Leading Miniature Carvers Working on the Sharp End, Part 2

There is no topic that those micro sculptors with mad skills can't pencil in: from Baby Yoda to endangered species, from complex engineering to the taboo of menstruation.

March 30th, 2020|Country: Bashkortostan, India, Russia, Taiwan, Tamil Nadu, USA, Vietnam|

Film: Seadrift, dir. Tim Tsai, 2019

Documentary inquiry into the obscure event from 1970s Texas that can serve as a teachable moment for contemporary immigration issues in the US and abroad

December 1st, 2019|Country: USA, Vietnam|

Film: Song Lang, dir. Leon Le, 2018

A gay love story between a gangster and a cải lương singer set in the 1980s Saigon: a stunning, enlightening and effortlessly cool debut feature with necessary Asian queer couple representation

August 14th, 2019|Country: Vietnam|

Book: Gaston Dorren, Babel, 2018

A book of wildly entertaining and illuminating essays on the world’s top 20 languages that celebrates the planet’s differences and similarities in a new way and makes you want to learn a new language

July 11th, 2019|Country: Brazil, Cameroon, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Netherlands, North Korea, Pakistan, Portugal, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Suriname, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tamil Eelam, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, USA, Vietnam|

Book: Rachel Love Nuwer, Poached, 2018

December 4th, 2018|Country: Chad, China, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Malawi, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Thailand, USA, Vietnam|

Art: Đinh Thị Thắm Poong, Curves and Lines, 2016

Vietnamese artist portrays the country's ethnic minorities in highly stylized paintings and creates a magical world where identity and nature bleed onto each other

January 2nd, 2018|Country: Vietnam|