Maika
Vietnamese
Hung is an 8-year-old boy, who is still coping with the death of his mother. Whenever he feels distraught, Hung retreats to the roof to be alone and watch the night sky. One night, he witnesses a meteor shower, with an errant falling star hitting the ground in the distance. Hung hops on his bike in search of adventure, to find the meteor. He arrives at the crash site, and instead discovers an alien girl from the planet Maika, who came in search of her lost friend.
sensitive content: death of a parent
Ham Tran
He received his MFA in Directing from the UCLA School of Film and Television, where his short films won numerous accolades. His first feature film, Journey from the Fall (2006) premiered at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival and received altogether 16 international film festival awards. In 2012, Tran began to direct films in Vietnam. The success of Six Inch Heels was followed by Tran’s horror film, Đoạt Hồn (2014) which paved the way for the horror film genre in Vietnam.
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