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CHILDREN OF THE MIST

By Diem HA LE

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Documentary - Completed 2021

Set in the North of Vietnam, Children of the Mist is a film about the holy time of childhood and its disappearance. Di, a 13-year-old Hmong girl, is about to face the destiny of many teenage girls of her ethnic group: bride kidnapping.

Festivals
& Awards

IDFA 2021

Best Directing Award & Special Mention First Feature

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- VIETNAM
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Diem HA LE
- Synopsis
- 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 changes drastically. The carefree little girl has turns into an impetuous, hypersensitive teenager constantly arguing with her mother who is trying to keep her away from reckless relationships
  that she is not mature enough to handle. On the Lunar New Year’s Eve, when Di’s parents come back home after celebrating, the house is silent: Di has disappeared.

CHILDREN OF THE MIST

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