姓越名南 7.9

In this film Trinh delves into the complex history and present of Vietnam from the perspective of women and their centuries-old emancipation struggles. Her focus is placed on the experiences of more recent history: ranging from the independence struggles against the French colonial power (1945–54); to the division into communist North Vietnam and nationalist South Vietnam; to the reunification after the Vietnam War in 1976 and the founding of the socialist state. The film questions relationships between gender and national identity, and it also queries the role and resistance of women in the context of conservative gender models, as shaped by Confucianism, being dismantled and of the new regime’s authoritarian structures. (Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart)