NHU MÔT DÒNG SÔNG (FLOWING HOME)
Sandra Desmazières | 2021 | France | 15’ | Animation
Two sisters grow up in Vietnam during the war and are separated by the aftermath of the conflict between the North and the South. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, Thao, the youngest, must flee Vietnam by boat to Malaisia with their uncle. Sao Maï, barely older, stays with her parents, hoping to join her soon. But their separation will last nearly twenty years, during which their epistolary relationship will be their only link and an outlet for their solitude. Telling each other about their daily life, their memories, the war and its ghosts, they narrate their journey in hope of a reunion.
Born in 1978, Sandra Desmazieres studied at Duperré, the National Superior School of Applied Arts in Paris, then entered the School of Decorative Arts in Paris where she discovered animation. Her graduation film Sans queue ni tête won the Cartoon d'or in 2003. She directed Le Thé de l'Oubli in 2008 and Bao in 2011, produced by Films de l'Arlequin. During and in between filmmaking, Sandra is also a children's illustrator. She also works as a comic book colorist.