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A Love Letter to Vietnam: Queer Vietnamese Film Nights


From 80s Saigon to modern-day California, A Love Letter to Vietnam is a series of films that showcases the plurality of queer Vietnamese lives across time and space. An opera singer falls for a ruthless debt collector. A community of Vietnamese-Americans organise for political change. In the bustle of the streets or in the limelight of the stage, queer possibilities take form even in the most restrictive circumstances.

A Love Letter to Vietnam: Queer Vietnamese Film Nights is a community cinema project by Queer East, working with our beloved community spaces across East London.

Screening Schedule

Mother Saigon + Museum Rooms Tour
Date & Time: Wednesday 27 November, 18:30 – 21:00
Location: Museum of the Home

Queer Vietnamese Americans Triple Bill + Q&A + Food Club
Date & Time: Thursday 5 December, 18:30 – 20:30
Location: ESEA Community Centre (formerly Hackney Chinese)

Song Lang + Food Club
Date & Time: Saturday 7 December, 17:00 – 20:00
Location: Centre 151

 


This is a pay-what-you-can event between £3 and £9.

We suggest £6 for general admission but feel free to follow the list below to pay based on your circumstances.

How much should I pay?
£3: I am just about able to cover my everyday costs, but I find it stressful occasionally.
£6: I can cover my everyday costs without pressing concerns.
£9: I would like to contribute more to support the community.


Dates


Wed 27 November, 6:30 AM
Event Past
Sat 7 December, 5:00 PM
Queer East -
Mother Saigon
2023
Directed by
Khoa Lê
Running time
98 mins
A mosaic of intimate portraits of Saigon's queer inhabitants, Mother Saigon is far from a documentary in a conventional sense, using the language of narrative film to explore expansive possibilities beyond reality. The trans women and gay couples in the film are not merely subjects but active participants who shape its...

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Queer Vietnamese Americans Triple Bill
2018
This triple bill of short films by director Quyên Nguyen-Le is a grounded yet imaginative exploration of the intricacies of queer Vietnamese-American life. Employing dream-like sequences to delve into trauma and memory, the films complicate the conceptions of queerness and diaspora, honing in on history and activism t...

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Song Lang
2018
Directed by
Leon Le
Running time
101 mins
Set in 1980s Saigon, Song Lang is a gritty underworld film noir with tender romance at its beating heart. A charismatic singer, specialising in Cai Luong, a modern form of traditional Vietnamese folk opera, falls hard for a brutish debt collector who forcefully collects money from his opera troupe. Despite their differ...

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