Madam Bua’s carpet

Synopsis

Madam Bua’s Carpet tells of mundane days in the life of numerous fates in a small neighborhood at the foot of Ngu Hanh Son Mountain. The small hamlet consists of women who once sacrificed their youth for the survival of the country; after peace was restored, they returned together, sharing hard-earned food and happy smiles after a day of making a living, all the while struggling with the pain left from the war… Their lives go on, just like that, and the pain eventually subsides, for they no longer have to live in the shadow of the war, of revenge brutality, of fatal tortures, walking the line between life and death.

Dirertor’s Biography

Director Duong Mong Thu (born 1977) graduated in Literature from Hue University of Sciences. She has been a reporter and documentary director since 2000 at the Vietnam Television Center in Da Nang, now the Vietnam Television Center in the Central Region (VTV8).

Duong Mong Thu has won various national awards for her television documentaries. As an independent documentary filmmaker, she has had many films screened and competed at international documentary film festivals. Among them, the film Madam Bua’s Carpetcompeted at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in Japan in October 2013 and won the Ogawa Shinsuke Award – the highest award in the Asian documentary category.