Kieu Premieres at the Asian American Film Festival!

A&PI grrrilah girl filmmaking crew presents to you "Kieu"--an Independent, experimental, vietnamese-language, feature-length movie about a Viet woman exalted in the annals of VN classical literature for her perseverance & karmic transcendence. Directed by the talented inter-disciplinary artist vu thi thu-ha.

"Kieu" has its world premieres at the 2006
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
Sunday March 19th at 5:00pm at the Kabuki. *2nd SF show added (check schedule!)
Sunday March 26th at 4:30pm at Camera 12.
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SYNOPSIS
In every person's life, there are eight doors.
You never know which door will open and what day
it will be. There are even some days when all the doors open.

Kieu transforms Truyen Kieu (The Tale of Kieu), a classic Vietnamese epic poem,
into a visually stunning, modern-day feature length film about self-revelation and renewal.
The first film of it’s kind, Kieu portrays the experience of massage parlor workers in San
Francisco’s Tenderloin District who balance faith in the face of contradictions daily. As the story rapidly unfolds within a twenty-four hour period, so does Kieu. On this day, her life is on
the brink of change; a letter from home, visits from a kindred spirit, and unexpected turn of
events flow into a collision of past, present and future. One by one, fragments of her fate merge. Like Truyen Kieu, Kieu is an honest telling of women’s survival, perseverance, and
compassion against incredible odds.