Until when you die, 30 min, 2006

IDFA Silver Cub Award nominee (HOL), True/False Festival (USA), Oxdox (UK), 

Leipzig (GER),

Until when you die is about a woman who left Vietnam in 1979 with her family in a fishing boat. We travelled back to her home and discovered that the village where she had grown up had been told that the boat had sunk and everyone had drowned. It was as if a ghost had returned...

 

This film was directed by polkadots founder Mark Aitken in close co-operation with the Vietnamese community of south London. Support came from community funding and the lottery.