Varan Vietnam

Di is a 12-year-old girl from the mist-shrouded mountains of northern Vietnam. She belongs to the Hmong, an ethnic minority in which girls get married at a very young age. This is often preceded by a controversial “bride-napping,” where the girl is abducted by her future husband on New Year’s Eve. Negotiations between the families follow. This also happened to Di’s sister and their mother, so it doesn’t seem strange that in preparation the women and girls discuss sex and married life without embarrassment. But Di also goes to school, where she learns very different values. And in her own way, even Di’s mother tries to warn her daughter about child marriage.

"Grave Diggers for Hire" quietly follows Bình and Ngọc, two men who earn a living tending graves and performing “bốc mộ”—a traditional Vietnamese ritual of exhuming, washing, and reburying human remains. Alongside their sons, they treat the dead with care and humor, maintaining a fading connection between the living and their ancestors.

The vibrant and surprising world of a 35-year-old "policeman", filled with hopes and dreams for love and life. However, reality often falls short of his aspirations.

The film shines a light on the lives of people in a small alley in a working-class residential area of ​​Ho Chi Minh City. They make a living from odd jobs: street vendors, small traders, loan sharks... For them, money is a daily struggle.