27 APRIL — 07 MAY 2023

27 APRIL — 07 MAY 2023

The Girl From Dak Lak

Mai Huyền Chi, Pedro Roman

Vietnam / Spain

Fiction, 2021, 86'

In the countryside, the days were always the same, which led Súóng to go to Saigon, the city full of people and infinite possibilities. But when she gets a job at a small eatery, with two other girls — who also live there, together — she gets into a passive routine. Nothing seems to exist outside of the restaurant. But her inner life isn’t so carefree and there is a battle inside her that she will have to resolve.

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INFO

PREMIERE TYPE

European

ORIGINAL TITLE

Cô gái đến từ Đắk Lắk

LANGUAGE

Vietnamese

SUBTITLES

English

SCRIPT

Mai Huyền Chi, Pedro Roman

CAST

Y Sương, Hạnh Ruby, Trần Thị Thanh Trúc, Huỳnh Thị Phương, Trần Khánh Sơn

PHOTOGRAPHY

Tạ Minh Đức

SOUND

Nguyễn Hữu Lộc

EDITING

Pedro Roman, Tạ Minh Đức

PRODUCER

Lê Thanh Hằng

PRODUCTION

Llanero Films, DABE Production

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