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New Wave

2024
  • Documentary,
  • English/Vietnamese,
  • Subtitled,
  • 88 Minutes,
  • United States
  • Saturday, October 19

    6:05pm

    The Music Hall Lounge

New Wave
  • Director: Elizabeth Ai
  • Producers: Elizabeth Ai, Rachel Sine
  • Screenwriters: Elizabeth Ai
  • Starring: Lynda Trang Đài, Ian Nguyen, Elizabeth Ai

Mile-high hair. Synthesized sounds. Teenage rebellion. Elizabeth Ai was on a mission to excavate an untold story of rebellious punks in the chaotic world of 80s Vietnamese new wave until she uncovered a hidden past. The fun Euro-synth dance beats and punk/goth aesthetics mask deep traumas—broken dreams and unfulfilled expectations that have shaped her community.