Still Night, Burning House

In her deeply personal debut feature, award-winning filmmaker Carol Nguyen charts her familys first reunion since her uncles mysterious death. Travelling together to Vietnam, the family embarks on a revelatoryand at times uncannyjourney through intergenerational trauma and many-layered loss. With care and probing curiosity, Nguyen guides her loved ones as they navigate unsealed medical records and a decades-long silence, ultimately leading them back to each other. A metaphysical poem for complex mourning, Still Night, Burning House shows how storytelling can transform grief into collective healing.