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Dir. Carol Nguyen2026, Canada, 76 min
English and Vietnamese with English subtitles
In her most personal work yet, filmmaker Carol Nguyen chronicles her family’s first gathering since her uncle’s mysterious death over a decade ago.
Travelling together to Vietnam, the family embarks on a transformative journey through intergenerational trauma, mental health and deeply layered loss. With profound care, trust and immediacy, Nguyen guides them as they navigate unsealed medical records and long-unspoken questions. How can we grieve if we’ve never been given the chance to be sad? Still haunted by guilt, Nguyen’s father’s search for answers via collective rituals and solitary meanderings soon leads him into the uncanny.
A companion to the award-winning short No Crying at the Dinner Table, Still Night, Burning House marks the feature debut of Vietnamese-Canadian filmmaker Carol Nguyen. A metaphysical poem for complex mourning, Nguyen’s film shows how storytelling can turn grief and regret into healing, hope and a kinship restored.
Content warning: This film contains discussions of suicide, and the effects on survivors of suicide loss. If you need support services, please call your local Distress Centre. If you need immediate help, please call or text 9-8-8.
Join us for a virtual post-screening Q&A with filmmaker Carol Nguyen
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Hoa
Dir. Trâm Anh Nguyễn
2023, Vietnam/Canada, 14 min
The filmmaker’s grandmother, Tuyết Hoa, suffers from memory loss but re-reads her autobiographical book every day. Unfolding as a poetic letter, the film moves between footage of Vietnam’s streets and their family home, interspersed with archival photographs from Hoa’s younger years and her role in the country’s struggle for independence.
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