Bi, Don’t be Afraid

Feature film, Vietnam 2010, 90 min., Original with English subtitles

An intense family story evolving in the gloomy heat of a summer. As in most big cities, every family member follows his or her own aims and desires, on the surface it seems to be merely the daily meals binding them all together. The small son takes expeditions into the local ice block factory, the father escapes for a massage, the young aunt develops a crush on a student, and the grand father is mind travelling to another country from which he returned due to sickness. In a quiet but intense way, each character and its relationships to other family members gets stronger in colours and shape as the story develops, sometimes in a surprising way.