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Jackfruit

film type fiction Production Country Germany production year 2021 runtime 34'09 colour
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.85:1 sound format Dolby Digital languages Deutsch, Vietnamesisch Subtitles Englisch, Deutsch

Full of tenderness and quiet gestures, this short tells the story of a gender-fluid person who finds themself between the Vietnamese diaspora and queer Berlin.

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director Thuy Trang Nguyen Bildgestaltung / DOP Sarina Laudam, Katharina Hauke Schnitt / Editing Ebru Sara Bilen Tongestaltung / Sound Design Ebru Sara Bilen Drehbuch / Script Thuy Trang Nguyen Produktion / Production Thuy Trang Nguyen film school ifs internationale filmschule köln
Festivals
2021 Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Saarbrücken, Germany
2021 Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg, Germany
2021 dokumentART Neubrandenburg, Germany
2021 KFFK - Kurzfilmfestival Köln, Germany
2021 Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, USA
2021 Porto Femme – International Film Festival, Portugal
2021 SMIF Spain Moving Images Festival, Madrid
2021 Sappho Film Festival, Dinton, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2021 Queer Film Festival München, Germany
2021 Kaleidoscope LGBTQ+ Film Festival, Arkansas, USA
Production
  • ifs internationale filmschule köln
  • Monika Bremen
  • +49 221 920188202
  • http://www.filmschule.de
Distribution
  • ifs internationale filmschule köln
  • Monika Bremen
  • +49 221 920188202
  • http://www.filmschule.de
Sales
  • ifs internationale filmschule köln
  • Monika Bremen
  • +49 221 920188202
  • http://www.filmschule.de
School

Thuy Trang Nguyen

Thuy Trang Nguyen, born 1993 in Berlin as a child of Vietnamese boat people;
working as an assistant director, dialogue coach, diversity reader, caster and editor for fictional and documentary feature films since 2012;
2014-17 film studies at the Free University Berlin;
2017-21 BA in Film Directing at the ifs Cologne

Filmography
2013 Finding Home
2016 Brokeback Bundeswehr
2018 ROAN
2019 Zappenduster

Portrait of Thuy Trang Nguyen