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IF WOOD COULD CRY, IT WOULD CRY BLOOD

By Linh Dan NGUYEN PHAN

LES CINEMAS DU MONDE - LA FABRIQUE CINEMA DE L’INSTITUT FRANÇAIS - as PROMO

Drama - Development 2022

In the heat of the escalating anti-colonialism war in Vietnam, a 14-year-old boy has to help sustain his family’s travelling circus by performing a life threatening act of knife throwing with his two siblings.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Drama, First film
- Countries
- VIETNAM
- Director(s)
- Linh Dan NGUYEN PHAN
- Producer(s)
- Bich Hanh NGO (BHD.Co)
- Synopsis
- The film centers on a family run travelling circus: Ba, a 14-year-old boy holds a wooden board for his older brother, Hai, to throw knives at, while their little sister, Tu, stands in front of the cutting board as the target girl. His brother's talent and his little sister's fearless attitude draws the blueprint for a tragedy waiting to happen. The movie unveils the world inside Ba’s head, as he attempts to help his sister from the fate that he has foreseen in his dreams, under the financial pressure of their family and the political pressure of the country entering war.