I LOVED YOU FIRST

Hai Anh Trieu | 2022 | Germany | 14’ | Fiction

6TH EDITION

The young Thi gets lost in the forest. Memories of her mother’s flight — while heavily pregnant with Thi — through the Bavarian Forest to Germany becomes a traumatic reality before her eyes.

Hai Anh Trieu is a Vietnamese German filmmaker and performance artist living in Berlin. As a child of Vietnamese workers in Czechoslovakia and later refugees in reunified Germany, her work focuses on diasporic experiences and transgenerational family dynamics and structures. She is particularly interested in examining the conditions of production of her own work from a critical and anti-decolonial perspective and integrating them into the creative process. Her short film Paris by Night was screened in our 5th Edition.