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TOMORROW YOU WILL LEAVE

By Martin NGUYEN

GOLDEN GIRLS FILMPRODUKTION & FILMSERVICES - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2012

The story of my Vietnamese father who was able to build up a new life in a small Austrian village, but there is still an open chapter in the past: the search for the man who once helped him in a refugee camp in Malaysia.

- Year of production
- 2012
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- AUSTRIA
- Languages
- GERMAN, VIETNAMESE
- Duration
- 83 mn
- Director(s)
- Martin NGUYEN
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-14CB-0000-W-0000-0000-F
- EIDR
- 10.5240/076B-A510-E172-5359-3FF1-D
- Producer(s)
- Arash T. RIAHI (Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices GmbH), Michael SEEBER (Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices GmbH)
- Synopsis
- In the 80ies in a small Austrian village, an old man, Mr. Karlhofer, saw a TV report about the struggle of Vietnamese Boat People. He decided to do something. He brought a young Vietnamese couple with a baby to his village, organised a home and work. This family were my parents and I. In the past, there was another helper: Ali, a former Malaysian police officer. Ali supported my parents with food and things my father could sell. When they left the refugee camp Pulau Bidong, my parents promised Ali to write, but my father lost the address. He was never able to say “Thank you”, never able to say that all went fine. “Let’s go back to Malaysia and look for him”, my father suggested.
  
  The film tells the story of my family who fled Vietnam in the 1980s and settled down in a small Austrian village to build up a new life. Years later, they return to Malaysia to find Ali and the former refugee camp Pulau Bidong where I was born. The past meets the presence.
- Partners & financing
- Austrian Film Institute / Österreichisches Film Institut
  Vienna Film Fund / Filmfonds Wien
  Lower Austria Film Fund / Land Niederösterreich