In a noisy outdoor restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City, three men are chatting when a motorcycle accident happens on the road right next to them. Thien doesn’t pay much attention to it, but it turns out that the victim of the accident is none other than Thien’s sister-in-law. Thien now has to take her dead body and his five-year-old nephew back to their rural home. It’s also up to Thien to find his brother, who left his wife and child behind. The feature debut of the emerging Vietnamese director Pham Thien An, this stunningly beautiful and compelling film offers deep insights into life and faith. At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, it became the first Vietnamese-language film to win the Camera d′Or in thirty years after Tran Anh Hung’s The Scent of Green Papaya (1993), marking the birth of a new auteur with critical acclaim. (BOO Kyunghwan)