Vietnam healing
Saturday october 18, 2025
Part 3: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The Empathizer
In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, millions of Vietnamese immigrants fled their beloved country to rebuild their lives all over the world. Nearly fifty years later, hundreds of children of these refugees have permanently returned to the motherland out of a curiosity and desire to experience the current country that their parents still mourn. Comedian Fred Le, who himself spent three years in Vietnam, conducts a series of interviews with these overseas-born Vietnamese professionals to explore the allure of the motherland and what it means to "return home."
Director: Fred Le
On Healing Land, Birds Perch (ĐẤT LÀNH CHIM ĐẬU)
ON HEALING LAND, BIRDS PERCH is a short documentary that tells the remarkable stories behind one of the most iconic photos in history, while acting as a portal into the “varied carols,” to borrow from Walt Whitman, of trauma and the American journey. This is the first documentary, from a Vietnamese born filmmaker that explores the continuing aftershocks of the Vietnam War from the perspectives of both sides of the war: North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese including Vietnamese Americans alive today. The story is told through the iconic Pulitzer winning photo of General Loan shooting a Vietcong captain Nguyen Van Lem in the head on the second day of the 1968 Tet Offensive.
Director: Naja Pham Lockwood
Q&A
4:00 pM - 4:30 PM
Director: Tadashi Nakamura
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Moderator: Janelle Wang
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