Saigon, Kosovo
An elegy for a non-existent country explores the hypothesis that breaking ties with the past can be the path to a new identity.Through an inventive narrative and across temporal distance, it connects a Vietnamese-speaking Kosovan woman and an American soldier in Vietnam, who are surprised by a new experience with language that affects their memory and their reading of the world and relationships.
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An elegy for a non-existent country explores the hypothesis that breaking ties with the past can be the path to a new identity. Through an inventive narrative and across temporal distance, it connects a Vietnamese-speaking Kosovan woman and an American soldier in Vietnam, who are surprised by a new experience with language that affects their memory and their reading of the world and relationships.
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- Release date
- Oct 27, 2024
- Runtime
- 0h 7m
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- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America, Vietnam
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