The Queen's Film Society Presents: Việt and Nam at The Queen Theater

The Queen's Film Society has scheduled a perfect film for Pride Month. It’s Việt and Nam, an official selection of the Cannes Film Festival that has been widely acclaimed around the world.

Nam and Việt are coal miners. Nam wants a different future and hires someone to smuggle him to the western world. Before leaving, Nam goes on a journey with his lover, Việt, and his mother, who claims that Nam’s father, a northern Vietnamese soldier, calls out in her dreams to find his missing body. John Waters, seeing the film at 2024 The New York Film Festival, declared it one of the Top Ten Films of the year, and the praise has only continued since it opened in theaters around the country last month.

“A haunting, meticulously paced drama.” — Lisa Kennedy, The New York Times

“Closeted romance, migration, human trafficking and the spectre of war are among the themes granted space to quietly reverberate within Truong Minh Quy’s third feature... [T]he writer-director truly finds his rhythm with this entrancing tale of two gay miners set against the backdrop of the central highlands of Vietnam." — John Berra, Screen Daily