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The Present Past

Blessed Land

18m

Directed by Pham Ngoc Lan • 2019 • Vietnam
Starring Nguyen Thuy Anh, Minh Chau, Hoang Ha

In the dune landscape of a cemetery—or is it a golf course?—past and present converge in the search for a grave.

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