The Greatest Country in the World

Directed by

Ky Nam Le Duc

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a version of Canada where a far-right government is deporting immigrants, a Vietnamese man plans to leave the country. He and his daughter's boyfriend try to find a boy's missing mother before she is taken away.

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What happens

The Greatest Country in the World (French: Le meilleur pays du monde) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Ky Nam Le Duc and released in 2019. Set in a reality in which Canada has just elected a far right government that is threatening to deport refugees and immigrants, the film centres on Hiên (Nguyen Thanh Tri), a Vietnamese immigrant who is preparing to move back to Vietnam, and Alex (Mickaël Gouin), the boyfriend of Hiên's daughter Phuong (Alice Tran) who has already left the country, as they help Junior (Stanley Junior Jean-Baptiste) try to locate his mother Roseline (Schelby Jean-Baptiste) when she disappears. The film premiered at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in 2019. It was screened at the Reelworld Film Festival in 2020, where it won the Audience Choice Award, and at the 2020 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, before going into commercial release in 2021. Nguyen Thanh Tri received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Actor at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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