Daughter from Danang (2002)

Directed by

Gail Dolgin

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 23m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An Amerasian woman named Heidi Bub returns to Da Nang to meet her biological family decades after being airlifted out of Vietnam. The documentary follows her attempt to reconnect with her mother and siblings in a tense reunion.

emotionalpoignantintimatereflectivebittersweetpersonalunsettlingslow-burn

What happens

Daughter from Đà Nẵng is a 2002 documentary film about an Amerasian, Heidi Bub, meeting her biological family in Da Nang, decades after being brought to the United States in 1975 during Operation Babylift at the end of the Vietnam War. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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