Silk dreams

Tung is Vietnamese - a refugee and a teenager. He lives in the western suburbs of Sydney. The rest of his family, apart from his grandmother, are still in Vietnam. He drifts along in an alien Western environment, hanging out with a gang of young men from a similar background until his grandmother, herself disadvantaged and displaced in Australia, spurs him on to change his life. An eye-opening and realistic drama of cultural isolation in contemporary Australia.

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Credits

production company

AFTRS

producer/director

Teck Tan

Duration

00:25:00:00

Production places

Australia

Production dates

1988

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

302855

Language

Vietnamese

Audience classification

MA

Subject categories

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Vietnamese - Australia

Foreign language films

Short films

Short films → Short films - Australia

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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Australia, 1988

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