Rooftop Lempicka

While her mother is expecting their second child, young Thi befriends club waitress Ngoc who has just moved in to tenant in their family′s house. As their friendship grows, she finds out that Ngoc is an undisclosed sex worker. Meanwhile, the story is silently observed by an art book featuring female nudes by painter Tamara de Lempicka, stolen from a bookstore.

Film Content Advisory: Non-Explicit Depiction of Sex

Credits
Writer: Hang Luong Nguyen
Producer: Nguyen Mai Ka, Le Quynh Anh
Executive Producer: Nguyen Mai Ka, Nhi Bui
Director of Photography: Carlos Estrada
Editor: Mira Thu
Production Designer: Anh La
Composer: Tsai Yi-Chun
Sound Designer: Hoang Thu Thuy, Korey Pereira
Music: Tsai Yi-Chun

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Borderlands

Explore liminal worlds – those in-between realms where reality blurs, time shifts, and identities are in flux. Through themes of transition, from childhood to womanhood or the spiritual to the physical, these films invite us into the charged, transformative moments of change.