Saigon, Kosovo

A quiet, essayistic meditation on memory and language that unfolds like a dream, asking you to sit with its fragments and associations.

Directed by

Runway AI, Tin Dirdamal

Genres

Documentary

Overview

An elegy for a non-existent country explores the hypothesis that breaking ties with the past can be the path to a new identity. Through an inventive narrative and across temporal distance, it connects a Vietnamese-speaking Kosovan woman and an American soldier in Vietnam, who are surprised by a new experience with language that affects their memory and their reading of the world and relationships.

How it feels

Melancholic, eerie and earnest. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

Memory, identity, war, isolation

Content

Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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