No Crying at the Dinner Table (2019)

Directed by

Carol Nguyen

Genre

documentary

Country

Canada

Runtime

16 min

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A filmmaker interviews her own family members about their emotional lives. Their answers are played back at a shared dinner table.

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What happens

No Crying at the Dinner Table is a 2019 Canadian short documentary film, directed by Carol Nguyen. An exploration of the common stigma in Asian families against expressing emotional vulnerability, the film centres on interviews Nguyen conducted with her family, played back around the dinner table at a family gathering. The film premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. In December 2019, the film was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for short films. The film received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Short Documentary at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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