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2020
The Rivers
Mai Hua, the French-Vietnamese single mom with two children, brings back her dying grandmother to France. As she miraculously recovers, questions are raised on the family's origins and a spell on women in the family. An intimate archeology of female lineage and the universal quest for one's own truth.
My takeA quietly profound meditation on family wounds, inherited mysteries, and the search for belonging. This is the kind of intimate documentary that pulls you into a specific life—a French-Vietnamese mother, her grandmother's miraculous recovery, whispered family secrets—and somehow makes it feel like your own story too.
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Cast
Mai HuaThai Thi Hong LoanMarthe Fochard
Director
Mai Hua
If tonight is a The Rivers night…
…these live in the same corner of my head.
Want one picked out for tonight?
Tell me what kind of night it is — I'll do the rest.