28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

24. 10.–2. 11. 2025
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Saigon, Kosovo
Saigon, Kosovo

Saigon, Kosovo

Tin Dirdamal, Runway AI / Kosovo, Vietnam, United States / 2024 / World Premiere / 7 min.


synopsis

An elegy for a non-existent country explores the hypothesis that breaking ties with the past can be the path to a new identity. Through an inventive narrative and across temporal distance, it connects a Vietnamese-speaking Kosovan woman and an American soldier in Vietnam, who are surprised by a new experience with language that affects their memory and their reading of the world and relationships.

biography

Tin Dirdamal (1982) is a Mexican documentary director and producer who studied physics and engineering. He is a Sundance, Documenta Madrid and Mexican Academy Award winner and a Rockefeller Media Artists Fellow.

more about film

director: Tin Dirdamal, Runway AI
producer: Jorge Caballero, Ana Giralt, Gustavo Leon, Gerard Tierney
script: Tin Dirdamal, Eva Cadena

contact

Tin Dirdamal
tin.dirdamal@gmail.com

Screening time

Sunday 27. 10. 2024, 14:00

DIOD

Friday 01. 11. 2024, 10:00

DIOD

Sunday 03. 11. 2024, 12:00

Horácké divadlo – Velká scéna

Film at festival

premiere type:World Premiere
festival edition:2024
section:Fascinations
language:English
subtitles:No Subtitles
colour:Colour

Info

director:Tin Dirdamal, Runway AI
original title:Saigon, Kosovo
country:Kosovo, Vietnam, United States
year:2024
running time:7 min.

Festival partners

Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms

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