FILM REVIEW - The Little Heart

Description:
Mai, a girl of 17 lives with her parents, two younger sisters and her brother in a poor village in central Vietnam. While her mother tries hard to feed the family, her father pursues pleasure with his outside affairs. This life of deprivation and misery never brings the family any happiness. Deep in the little girl’s tiny heart, she desires to earn more to help her family.

From a family acquaintance, she is soon referred to a so-called tailoring course in Saigon. At the admiration of her peers,
1/ Montreal World Film Festival, Canada (Jul 18,08) 2/ Bangkok International Film Festival, Thailand, (Sep 23-30) 3/ FilmFest Hamburg 2008, Germany (Sep 25-Oct 2) 4/ International Film Festival "Schlingel", Germany, (Oct 13-19) 5/ Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Australia, Sep 1, 2008 6/ Hawaii International Film Festival, USA, Oct 18-28
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