
Edition: First Cut Lab Karlovy Vary 2024
Summer School, 2001
Czech Republic, Slovak Republic
Production company: nutprodukce
World Premiere: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2025 – Special Screenings
Summer 2001. Seventeen-year-old Kien with a bright red hairstyle returns to his family at the market in Cheb after ten years in Vietnam. Instead of a warm welcome, he is greeted by an estranged father, a worried mother, and a younger brother who doesn’t give him anything. Between ironing Pokemon on T-shirts, practicing Czech, and dating by the lake, a secret comes to the surface, the revelation of which turns the market’s life upside down…
CREDITS
Director: Dužan Duong
Writers: Dužan Duong, Jan Smutný, Lukáš Kokeš
Editor: Jakub Jelínek, Jakub Podmanický
Producers: Lukáš Kokeš, Dužan Duong
Cast: Đoàn Hoàng Anh, Lê Quỳnh Lan, Tô Tiến Tài, Bùi Thế Duong, Ngô Xuân Thắng, Nguyễn Dũng