Roan
A tender relationship unfolds between an elderly Vietnamese grandmother, who raised eight children on her own and took them safely away from the Vietnam war, and her granddaughter, who was born and brought up in Germany. While they spend a day at the grandmother’s apartment in Berlin-Reinickendorf, they begin to share small discoveries of everyday life and larger, existential questions. We see the warm admiration felt from granddaughter to grandmother. The power, endurance, strength and love shared by the two women, as they reach across generations.
This film is being screened in the short film program Heimat.
Director: Thuy Trang Nguyen
Thuy Trang Nguyen was born to Vietnamese parents in Berlin, Germany in 1993.
After graduating high school she became Co-founder of the non-profit organization BERLIN ASIAN FILMNETWORK. Before attending film school in 2016 at Internationale Filmschule Köln, she took a theoretical approach to audiovisual arts and studied film theory at Freie Universität Berlin. She worked as an assistant director, sound engineer and cinematographer for fictional and non-fictional features, gaining work experiences in England, Germany and Vietnam. Aiming to raise awareness of under- and misrepresentation of the Asian Diaspora in the German media, she started to work as a Dialogue Coach and Caster/Streetcaster for actors and actresses of Asian descent.
After graduating high school she became Co-founder of the non-profit organization BERLIN ASIAN FILMNETWORK. Before attending film school in 2016 at Internationale Filmschule Köln, she took a theoretical approach to audiovisual arts and studied film theory at Freie Universität Berlin. She worked as an assistant director, sound engineer and cinematographer for fictional and non-fictional features, gaining work experiences in England, Germany and Vietnam. Aiming to raise awareness of under- and misrepresentation of the Asian Diaspora in the German media, she started to work as a Dialogue Coach and Caster/Streetcaster for actors and actresses of Asian descent.