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Kim is 15; his father and step-mother have two buffalo, their lifeline as subsistence rice farmers. During the rainy season, there's no grass and the buffalo are starving. Kim volunteers to take the beasts inland to find food. On this coming-of-age journey, Kim sees men mistreat women, men fight with men, and French taxes rob the poor. He works for Lap, a buffalo herder whose past is entangled with Kim's parents, and he makes friends who will lead him to his place in the world.Read moreLess
Kim is 15; his father and step-mother have two buffalo, their lifeline as subsistence rice farmers. During the rainy season, there's no grass and the buffalo are starving. Kim volunteers to take the beasts inland to find food. On this coming-of-age journey, Kim sees men mistreat women, men fight with men, and French taxes rob the poor. He works for Lap, a buffalo herder whose past is entangled with Kim's parents, and he makes friends who will lead him to his place in the world.
The story
Kim is 15; his father and step-mother have two buffalo, their lifeline as subsistence rice farmers. During the rainy season, there's no grass and the buffalo are starving. Kim volunteers to take the beasts inland to find food. On this coming-of-age journey, Kim sees men mistreat women, men fight with men, and French taxes rob the poor. He works for Lap, a buffalo herder whose past is entangled with Kim's parents, and he makes friends who will lead him to his place in the world.
Cast & crew
Lê Thế LữKim
Kiều TrinhBan
Nguyễn Hữu ThànhDinh, Kim's Father
Ánh HoaBà Hai
Nguyễn Thị ThắmBa Tu
Trương Quang ThịnhQuang
Thạch Kim LongThanhExplore the crew
- Director
- Minh Nguyen-Vo
- Writer
- Minh Nguyen-Vo
- Writer
- Nam Son
- Original Music Composer
- Tôn-Thât Tiêt
- Producer
- Olivier Dubois
- Producer
- Duc Tien Le
- Producer
- Vincent Canart
- Producer
- Muriel Merlin