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Wide Angle: Documentary Showcase, 2025

Hair, Paper, Water...

머리카락, 종이, 물...Tóc, Giấy và Nước...

Director TRƯƠNG MINH Quý, Nicolas GRAUX

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Co-directed by Trương Minh Quý (director of Viet and Nam (2024), Cannes Un Certain Regard) and Belgian filmmaker Nicolas Graux, this film captures the fading flows of language and memory through the daily life of Hậu, a Ruc woman born in a cave 60 years ago who now lives in a village caring for her grandchildren. The three titular motifs—hair, evoking life’s traces and passage of time; paper, representing the nonexistent Ruc script, once passed down orally and now longed for as a means of preservation; and water, symbolizing both time’s flow and the generational transmission of culture—serve as the film’s structural pillars. Through words and silences shared between Hậu, one of the last speakers of the Ruc language, and her grandchildren, the film quietly contemplates the vibrations of a disappearing language and people. The grain of 16 mm film and the 4:3 aspect ratio heighten the emotional density. It is a sensory ethnography and poetic documentary that conveys memory through the senses and inscribes language into silence.

Programme note by JO Ji-hoon

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Hair, Paper, Water... 1 — dérives - petit chaos

Hair, Paper, Water... 2 — dérives - petit chaos

Hair, Paper, Water... 3 — dérives - petit chaos

Screenings3

Sat, 09/20

19:3020:41

CGV Centum City 1

183KE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Sun, 09/21

17:0018:11

CGV Centum City 1

262KE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Tue, 09/23

14:0015:11

LOTTE CINEMA Centum City 2

441KE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Film details

Director: TRƯƠNG MINH Quý, Nicolas GRAUX
Original title: Tóc, Giấy và Nước...
Country/Region: Belgium, France, Vietnam
Year: 2025
Length: 71min
Section: Wide Angle: Documentary Showcase
Edition: Busan International Film Festival 2025, No. 30
Original language: Vietnamese
Format: DCP, Color
Selection: Official selection
Elsewhere: Festival page Letterboxd IMDb Wikidata TMDB Douban

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TRƯƠNG MINH Quý

Nicolas GRAUX

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Director: TRƯƠNG MINH Quý, Nicolas GRAUX
Cast: Thị Hậu CAO, Xuân Doanh CAO, Thị Bát CAO, Thị Hiệu CAO
Production company: Dérives, petit chaos
World sales: Lights On

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