NPR's Emily Kwong speaks with director Trương Minh Quý about his new film Việt and Nam. It follows the journey of two young miners as they search for intimacy and escape.

Nam’s mother (Nguyễn Thị Nga) is still mourning the death of her husband during the war. She is obsessed, it turns out, with wanting to locate his body, which has never been found.

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Willis R. Hall was assigned to a tactical air navigation radio site on a mountain in Laos during ...

Nam’s mother (Nguyễn Thị Nga) is still mourning the death of her husband during the war. She is obsessed, it turns out, with wanting to locate his body, which has never been found.

Trương: I grew up with both, let's say, traditions of film about the Vietnam War. One is Hollywood and the other one is propaganda movies made by Vietnamese film studios.