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Hair, Paper, Water…

Year
2025
Country
Belgium, France, Vietnam
Duration
71’
Directors
TRƯƠNG Minh Quý, Nicolas Graux

Born in a cave and now in her old age, a Rục woman navigates memory and daily life, passing on her disappearing language to her grandchildren.

CREW:
Director: Nicolas Graux, Trương Minh Quý
Producer: Julie Freres, Thomas Hakim, Julien Graff
Cinematographer: Nicolas Graux
Editor: Trương Minh Quy
Sound: Ernst Karel, Trương Minh Quý
Production
Dérives, petit chaos
Sales:
Lights On
Awards
Pardo d’Oro – Concorso Cineasti del Presente, Special Mention from Pardo Verde Jury and Boccalino d'Oro Award for Best Cinematography; Festival des 3 Continents 2025, France – The Montgolfière d'Argent​ Award; Hainan Island International Film Festival 2025, China – Golden Coconut Award for Best Documentary Film; ​BAFICI – Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente 2026, Argentina – Grand Prize (Best International Feature Film Award) and Honorable Mention from ADF (Argentine Association of Film Photographers); ​Taiwan International Documentary Festival 2026 – Grand Prize
Director
TRƯƠNG Minh Quý

Trương Minh Quý was born in Buon Ma Thuot, a small city in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. His narratives and images, located between documentary and fiction, personal and impersonal, draw on the landscape of his homeland, childhood memories, and the history of Vietnam.

 

He graduated from Le Fresnoy - National Studio of Contemporary Arts (France) in 2021. His films have been selected for international film festivals and exhibitions such as Cannes, Berlinale, Locarno International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, IFFR, Busan International Film Festival and Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin.

​He won the main Art Prize at the 20th VideoBrasil (São Paulo) in 2017. His latest film, Việt and Nam (2024), is selected in Cannes Official Selection - Un Certain Regard.
Selected Filmography
Hair, Paper, Water… (2025), Việt and Nam (2024), Porcupine (2023), Les Attendants (2021), Death of Soldier (2020), The Tree House (2019), The Sublime of Rectum (2017), The City of Mirrors: A Fictional Biography (2016), How Green Was the Calabash Garden (2016), The City of Mirrors (2015), Déjà Vu (2014), Mars in the Well (2014), Someone Is Going to Forest (2013)
Director
Nicolas Graux

Nicolas Graux was born in Binche, a small town in Belgium’s former coal-mining region.His films, blending documentary and fiction, explore sociopolitical realities through immersive research and a poetic, sensitive gaze.

He graduated from IAD (Institut des Arts de Diffusion) and co-founded the production company Replica in 2012. 

His debut feature, Century of Smoke (2019), a portrait of a Laotian family struggling with opium addiction, premiered at Visions du Réel and screened at international festivals such as São Paulo, Munich, and Cartagena. Since 2020, he has collaborated across borders and forms with Vietnamese filmmaker Trương Minh Quý.

​He is currently developing his first fiction feature.

Selected Filmography

Hair, Paper, Water…(2025), Porcupine (2023), Century of Smoke (2019), After Dawn (2017), La Colonie plate (2013), Boy with the Devil (2012)

Hall «GEGEMON»
Zhovten cinema
Kostiantynivska St, 26
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Tuesday
09 June 2026
17:20
Hall «KINOMAN»
Zhovten cinema
Kostiantynivska St, 26
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Wednesday
10 June 2026
10:00
Kino42
Kostiantynivska str., 11/13
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Friday
12 June 2026
20:00
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Country
Czech Republic, Slovakia
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Duration
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Year
2025
Country
Poland, Norway, Finland
Director
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Duration
79’
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