Vietnam / 2021 / 92’
Spain, Bosnia and Herzegovina / 2021 / 71’
CHILDREN OF THE MIST
DISTURBED EARTH Disturbed Earth HÀ LỆDIỄM
KUMJANA NOVAKOVA GUILLERMO CARRERAS-CANDI
Mev nyuam npaj huab / Những đứa trẻtrong sương
Di is a 12-year-old girl living in a village lost in the mist of Northwest Vietnamese mountains. She belongs to the Hmong ethnic minority where women get married very young, enduring the controversial tradition of “bride-kidnapping”. When Di enters puberty, her personality has changed drastically. The carefree little girl has turned into an impetuous, hypersensitive teenager. On the Lunar New Year’s Eve, when Di’s parents come back home after celebrating, the house is silent: Di has disappeared.
Script: HÀ LệDiễm Photography: HÀ LệDiễm Editing: Swann Dubus Production: TRẦN Phương Thảo Swann DUBUS
A space in silence, where past has captured present. Taking over, layer by layer, the collective pain enters the landscape, the space, the city. Eventually, it enters us. Srebrenica becomes a reality of today, and our own reality.
Festivals & Awards: Ljubljana Doc Film Festival - Amnesty International Award, Slovenia (2022), Cinéma du Réel - Clarens Prize for Humanist Documentary Filmmaking, Switzerland (2022), One World - Special Jury Award, Poland (2022), ZagrebDox - Little Stamp Award, Croatia (2022), DokFest Münich - SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit, Germany (2022), DOXA - Best Feature Documentary, Canada (2022), Millenium Festival - Silver Goal, Belgium (2022), Taiwan IDF - Next Generation Award, Taiwan (2022), IDFA - Best Directing Award, Netherlands (2021), Budapest IDF - Best Directing Award, Hungary (2021)
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Script: Kumjana Novakova, Guillermo Carreras-Candi Photography: Kumjana Novakova, Guillermo Carreras-Candi Editing: Jelena Maksimović Sound: Oriol Gallart Production: Guillermo Carreras-Candi (Atzucac Films), Kumjana Novakova (Pravo Ljudski International Film Festival) Co-production: Daniel Barea
Selected Filmography: Kumjana Novakova Homes (2017) It Could Be a Film (2016) When Clouds Burst... (2014) SK2014 (2014) Guillermo Carreras-Candi SK 2014 (2014) Tragovi (2010) Festivals & Awards: La Inesperada Film Festival, Spain (2022), BHFFNYC, USA (2022), Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2021), Play-Doc -Tui International Documentary Festival, Spain (2021), Gijón International Film Festival, Spain (2021)
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