Original language
Vietnamese-language films in Berlin
Films originally in Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt), screening in their original version in Berlin's independent cinemas. All showtimes are OV or OmU/OmdU/OmeU – never dubbed.
The Tree House(2019)
Documentary, Science Fiction
In 2045, a filmmaker lands on Mars and tries to make a film. “Home… Far away from home”, he recalls faces of people, thus a collection of moving images emerge.
The Inseminator(2015)
Drama
Boi leads an isolated life on a mountain with his unwed daughter and his mentally disabled son Maize. Feeling death approach, he becomes obsessed with the continuation of the family line and he resolves to find his son a wife. After numerous intense but failed attempts to buy a woman for Maize, the father is driven to increasingly insane acts...
Mother Saigon(2023)
Documentary
In Saigon, family culture carries on as it has for centuries, even when blood ties are broken. Through a mosaic of intimate portraits, Má Sài Gòn explores humanity’s universal desire for love, acceptance, connection and belonging through an LGBTQ+ lens. The film is a love letter – a bittersweet ode to a comforting yet disturbing mother, to a city that is as liberating as it is oppressive.
In Chase of the Windy Devil Gang(1992)
Crime, Thriller
A young policeman is determined to trace down the elusive Windy Devil Gang that has been wrecking terror and fear across the city. As the chase seems to know no bounds, the possibilities of discovery dissolve into infinity.
Money, Money!(1989)
Comedy
Returning to Vietnam after many years of studying abroad, a doctorate in atomic force Thai Duong entered an unimaginable reality. Many funny situations took place in his family when he was pondering over choosing a job in a new environment. Thai Duong was tricked into losing money, and his father and brother Loc Ton performed a risky mission to earn money: buying liquidated bombs.
Remainder of the Laughing Forest(1991)
Drama, History, War
Amidst the forest of Trường Sơn mountains, Thảo and four other girls are assigned to guard a major supply depot on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. As the war progresses and their health deteriorates, the girls begin to suffer from hysteric episodes where they become manic and laugh uncontrollably.
The Last Hope(1981)
Drama
In early-80s' Hanoi, a director of a state-owned factory welcomes his wife, a journalist, into a changed home after she spent some time away. As she struggles to make sense of their new wealth, he struggles to avoid embezzlement charges by a poor inspector—who turns out to be an old friend of hers.
Two Worlds(1953)
Romance
Tân, a Vietnamese student in Paris, has tuberculosis. He is hospitalized in a university sanatorium in the Parisian suburbs. Far from his family, who can no longer support him because of the First Indochina War, he continues to work nightshifts as a musician in restaurants and cabarets. His Vietnamese friends don't realize that he lives in abject poverty, in a world apart.