Love, Dad

Program:

International Competition

Year:

2021

Country:

Czech Republic, Slovakia

Genre:

Animation, documentary, experimental

Duration:

12'

A short film about ties and gaps between a child and a parent. The author rediscovers letters her dad used to write her from prison. That love seems to be gone now. She decides to write back in hope to find the connection again. She puts in writing what could not be said: blaming him for family’s break-up but also trying to understand.

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Diana Cam Van Nguyen

Diana Cam Van Nguyen (1993, Czechia) is a Czech-Vietnamese director based in Prague. Her bachelor film THE LITTLE ONE (2017) won several awards at festivals and competed for ECFA Doc Award at Berlinale 2019. Her next short film APART (2018) internationally premiered at IFF Rotterdam 2019 in the section Voices shorts, competed at Annecy, BFI London Film Festival and was a finalist for BAFTA Student Film Award 2019. Her current short LOVE, DAD (2021) premiered in Locarno Film Festival in Pardi di domani section.

Filmography: Apart (2018), The Little One (2017)

Creative team

Director

Diana Cam Van Nguyen

Screenplay

Diana Cam Van Nguyen, Lukáš Janičík

Camera

Kryštof Melka, Matěj Piňos

Editing

Lukáš Janičík

Sound and music

Viera Marinová