Still Night, Burning House

Name: Still Night, Burning House
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 1 hr 16 min

Movie

DirectorCarol Nguyen

WriterCarol Nguyen

NR 1 hr 16 minDocumentary

Plot

In her deeply personal debut feature, award-winning filmmaker Carol Nguyen charts her family’s first reunion since her uncle’s mysterious death. Travelling together to Vietnam, the family embarks on a revelatory—and at times uncanny—journey through intergenerational trauma and many-layered loss. With care and probing curiosity, Nguyen guides her loved ones as they navigate unsealed medical records and a decades-long silence, ultimately leading them back to each other. A metaphysical poem for complex mourning, Still Night, Burning House shows how storytelling can transform grief into collective healing.

Movie Details

Original Language:English

Executive Producers:Sylvain Corbeil, Nathalie Cloutier, Bob Moore, Anh Duy Võ Đình

Production Companies:ONF | NFB, Metafilms, Portage Films inc.