Programmed April 2025

Legacies of War: Vietnam Across the Divides

On the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon, filmmaker and program curator Tony Bui presents a multiperspective look at the Vietnam War on film, moving beyond conventional narratives to include voices and viewpoints often overlooked in mainstream cinema. While the most famous Vietnam War films—like the cultural touchstones Platoon and Full Metal Jacket —focus on the experience of American soldiers, this selection paints a broader, more complex picture, exploring Vietnamese perspectives, the war’s impact on civilians, and postwar reckoning. Encompassing powerfully human Vietnamese dramas like The Little Girl of Hanoi and When the Tenth Month Comes , wrenching documentaries like Regret to Inform and Hearts and Minds , and Bui’s own poetic reflection on Vietnam past and present, Three Seasons , these stories of loss, resilience, trauma, and reconciliation offer new ways of understanding a conflict that shattered and shaped countless lives.