Vietnam: 50 Years of Forgetting

The documentary "50 Years of Forgetting" explores the enduring impact of the Vietnam War on contemporary Vietnamese lives, with filmmaker Mai Huyen Chi investigating her war hero grandfather's story. Chi travels across Vietnam, meeting people whose experiences highlight both resilience and loss, including her cousin who suffers from Agent Orange effects. The film transcends the war's specifics to explore universal themes of conflict and its lasting legacies, raising questions about collective memory and the risk of forgetting past lessons.