Viet und Nam

Vietnam 2001: Young miners Viet and Nam love each other. Together they toil 1000 metres underground, where darkness reigns and danger lurks. The coal surrounds them, relentless, dusty, wet. Together they set off in search of Nam's father, who went missing in the war, and cross the country from north to south. But Nam actually wants to start a new life abroad. When he decides to leave Vietnam inside a shipping container, something threatens to break between the lovers.

In VIET AND NAM, Trương Minh Quý tells the story of a love that is not only characterised by difficult life circumstances, but also by national and family traumas, by ghosts of the past. Trương finds images that are comparable to Apichtpong Weerasethakul's cinema in their poetic power. Sex on a mountain of black coals has never sparkled more beautifully out of the dark!