Cinema | KTT Kim Liên

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In 1986, the socialist state of reunified Vietnam adopted reforms encouraging private initiative, established the policy of “cooperation between the State and the people” and disengaged from the maintenance of the KTT. Their residents can now acquire a right to use their apartment. Individual and collective processes of transformation of collective housing sectors then appear. The appearance of the neighborhood is changing; residential bars disappear behind the extensions of old apartments and new constructions are built in free spaces, real streets are formed, a neighborhood emerges where functional segregation reigned. Families are now making this city project that had been imposed on them fully habitable. The film, shot between the fall of 1999 and the summer of 2000, bears witness to this space-time of catching up by following certain residents of the neighborhood or street vendors who, through their incessant surveying, participate in the transfiguration of prefabricated places into spaces of life.

>> followed by  a Q&A with the director, Olivier Boucheron

Length: 56 minutes