In the Nguyen Kitchen

In the Nguyen Kitchen 2025

1

Yvonne Nguyen, a French-Vietnamese actress, dreams of a successful career in musicals, to the great displeasure of her mother, who would like her to pursue a more serious path. When she has no choice but to move back to her mother’s, both women are strangers to each other. But in the intimacy of the Vietnamese family restaurant’s kitchen, they grow closer. Meanwhile, Yvonne is still after her dreams and finally gets the chance to audition for a big show.

2025

Fairyocious

Fairyocious 2019

1

Alma, petrified, does not know how to react when her son, age 8, wants to dress as a fairy and go to school. She asks advice from her neighbor, and eventually the entire building debates his right to behave cross-gender.

2019

Noir-soleil

Noir-soleil 2021

6.40

After an earthquake in Naples bay, the body of a man is found. While Dino and his daughter, Victoria, travel to Italy for a DNA test, the past catches up with them.

2021

Smoky Mountain

Smoky Mountain 2020

6.00

Phom Penh, Cambodia, nowadays. Sony, a 10-year-old Cambodian kid working at a discharge, is thrown out of home by his father. Left on his own, he is fostered by an association that is allowing him to go to school and to discover a new way of living. Sony will quickly settle, but on the day of a school outing, he makes an unexpected discovery.

2020

Exotique

Exotique 2015

8.00

Philomène, a teenager of African origin, loves Bastien, a guy in her class. But with her frizzy hair, she doesn't feel she has the weapons of seduction to challenge those girls with vaporous hair. She gets a weave. Philomène lives this capillary change as a metamorphosis.

2015

Kubra

Kubra 2021

10.00

Short film about designer and performance artist Kubra Khademi and her works.

2021

Vitiligo

Vitiligo 2019

1

Vitiligo is a « cine-poem » with the Belgo-Burundian slam and poet Gioia Kayaga. This hybrid video, mixing performance, cinema, music, poetry, installation, theater and dance is a non-territorialized act. Vitiligo invites you to experience the mindspace of two women, both plunged deep in an internal questioning of their external apparence.

2019