Movies by Carol Nguyen

No Crying at the Dinner Table

No Crying at the Dinner Table

Filmmaker Carol Nguyen interviews her own family to craft an emotionally complex and meticulously composed portrait of intergenerational trauma, grief, and secrets in this cathartic documentary about things left unsaid.

Uprooted

Uprooted

A short stop motion animation recounting my father's journey immigrating to Canada from Vietnam.

This Home Is Not Empty

This Home Is Not Empty

A chilling experimental meditation on the lies in which we tell ourselves expressed through the starkly minimalist dioramic presentation of a seemingly empty home.