MONSOON

By Khaou HONG

AARDWOLF FILMS (SWITZERLAND) - as DISTR Airline, World

Drama - Completed 2019

Kit returns to Ho Chi Minh City for the first time since he was six-years-old when his family fled the country in the aftermath of the Vietnam-American war.

Festivals
& Awards

Karlovy Vary IFF 2019
Official Selection - Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Drama, LGBT
    • Countries
    • Unknown, UNITED KINGDOM
    • Duration
    • 85 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Khaou HONG
    • Synopsis
    • Kit (Henry Golding), a young British Vietnamese man, returns to his birth country for the first time in over 30 years. He was just eight years old when he and his family escaped Saigon as ‘boat refugees’ during the Vietnam-American war. No longer familiar with this country and unable to speak his native language, Kit embarks on a personal journey from Saigon to Hanoi, in search of a place to scatter his parents’ ashes. Along the way he meets his estranged family and falls for Lewis, an American whose father had fought in the war. During his travels, Kit finally starts to connect to the memories of his parents and his own roots.