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no no no no no no no no no no no no vietnam is a nation both ancient and modern. bursting with life. rooted in history. and in communism. its where american soldiers fought for vietnam to have democracy more than 50 years ago. and where my father served as an army combat pilot. now i have my own mission. oh, my god, trekking to vietnam. my dad would have loved us to see for myself. oh, imagine the places where dad earned his hard won wisdom. his name is there. join me for this adventur...

Oliver Laxe's second feature, Mimosas, screened at IFFR in 2017. Earlier, he played the lead in Ben Rivers' experimental fiction The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers, screened at IFFR in 2015. This year, the director can again be seen in front of the camera, in Anton Corbal's debut long documentary. Having spent five years in Morocco, Laxe returns to Vilela to renovate his grandparents' dilapidated family home. Together with a small crew ...

Maps and ancient curses sit alongside peculiar sculptures, dystopias and sci-fi in this astonishing and hopeful exhibition that travels to the end of this century