Baltic Cinema Việt and Nam

Baltic Cinema: Việt and Nam

Wed 12 November | 18:30

£6 Full price / £4 Students, under 18s, unwaged and 65+

Young miners Nam and Việt are in love. But theirs is a world of poverty and hardship, and the impossibility of staying and starving mean that the opportunity to leave, when it eventually presents itself in the form of a people smuggler, threatens to tear them apart. The coal mine, dark and dangerous, nonetheless becomes a sanctuary of sorts in which time stands still while they cling to the time that they have left together.

Shot on 16mm, Trương Minh Quý’s film offers a tactile, sensual experience of dust, sparkling coal, rain and heat, the lovers’ bodies gleaming in the blackness of the mine. With Vietnam’s troubled history never far away, and the material reality of the young men’s lives a constant reminder of the urgency of migration, hope somehow persists despite all.

Doors open 18:30; Film starts 18:45. Baltic Kitchen is open until 18:30 for drinks, which you are welcome to take up to the cinema.

Please note we cannot offer refunds on this event.