MUI DIÊN IS NOT DEAD
Trân Minh Nam | 2016 | France | 18’ | Fiction
Paris, 13th district. Loulou owes money to some thugs. He asks his brother Vinh for help, but Vinh has no money left after buying a ring to get engaged to Mai Linh. The thugs demand the ring to free Loulou. So Vinh decides to go at them the hard way, as he had already done in Vietnam when they were children and Mui Diên was bullying them.
Trân-Minh Nam was born in Paris. He co-wrote Le Serpent (2007) and Le Dernier Diamant (2014), two thrillers directed by Eric Barbier, and then moved on to directing by bringing to the screen the family story that shaped his childhood (Mui Diên is not dead). His feature film project, Heirs, which received a rewriting grant from the CNC in 2013, tells the fate of a family of Vietnamese boat people upon their arrival in France.