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The Avalon Theatre will screen the film Summer School, 2001, with director Dužan Duong on March 11, 2026, at 7:30 pm!Set in the summer of 2001, seventeen-year-old Kien returns to his Vietnamese family in the Czech border town of Cheb after ten years in Vietnam. Instead of a warm welcome, he finds an estranged father, a worried mother, and a younger brother who isn’t ready to forgive or forget. Between heat-pressing Pokémon onto T-shirts, learning Czech grammar, and lakeside flirtations, a buried secret surfaces.
Told with lightness and humor, the film offers a coming-of-age story from inside the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic. (102 min, in Vietnamese and Czech with English subtitles)
The film was nominated at the 2026 Czech Film Critics’ Awards for:
• Best Screenplay
• Discovery of the Year
Post-screening Q&A with director Dužan Duong
About the Director:
Dužan Duong is a director and cinematographer of Vietnamese origin. He debuted at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival with the short film Mat Goc and gained recognition with Bo Hai, screened at FAMUfest, Finále Plzeň, Prague Shorts, SGIFF, and Cottbus IFF. His work explores identity and cultural memory, and he also works in advertising cinematography under the brand Novák+Nguyen.
Event Details:
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 7:30 pm
Location: Avalon Theatre
5612 Connecticut Avenue, Washington, DC 20015
Tickets: https://www.theavalon.org/films/summer-school-2001/
Film Trailer: https://filmfreeway.com/SummerSchool2001
The event is presented in collaboration with the Embassy of the Czech Republic and Reel Citrus.
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Event Venue
The Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20015-2604, United States, Bethesda
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