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Hair, Paper, Water...
Institute of Contemporary Arts
Hair, Paper, Water..., dir. Nicolas Graux and Trương Minh Quý, Belgium/France/Vietnam 2025, 71 min., Rục, Vietnamese with English subtitles


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Shot on lush 16mm and attuned to the forest’s hush, this evocative film tenderly traces the life of Cao Thi Hau, a homeopath, farmer and great-grandmother. Alone in the mountains, where she communes with the soil and tends to her grandchildren, Cao’s wisdom becomes a beacon in a world adrift from its roots. Guided by Trương (Viet and Nam) and Graux’s (Century of Smoke) poetic precision, the film gently dissolves the boundary between fiction and documentary.
 
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03:15 pm
Sun, 12 Oct 2025
Cinema 1
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