Sunday Menu

24 min / color video
Germany 2011
DIRECTOR: Liesl Nguyen

A teenage, Vietnamese-German girl confronts generational and cross-cultural conflicts through the ritualistic power of food in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany. She shares her emotional world with her homesick and bedridden grandmother, her mother who struggles with her unsuccessful restaurant, and her upbeat cousin who seems to successfully straddle the German and Vietnamese cultures.

The film is loosely inspired by the eponymous short story Thuc Don Chu Nhat (English: Sunday Menu) by Vietnamese writer Pham Thi Hoai, who lives in Berlin.