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Film Festival - Masterclass with author Kim Thuy (1975-2025: Writing and Filming The Vietnamese Diaspora in North America)

by Princeton Film Festival

Forum/Panel Discussion Arts Diversity & Inclusion Global/Intercultural Humanities

Fri, Apr 25, 2025

5 PM – 7 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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Forbes College Private Dining Room

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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As part of the third edition of the Princeton French Film Festival, you're invited to an intimate conversation with award-winning author Kim Thuy who will be in attendance to talk, in an informal way over dinner, about her autobiographical book "Ru" (2009), a touching story about Vietnamese refugees who left their country following the Vietnam war in the 1970s and beyond. Kim Thuy's book was sold into more than half a million copies and translated into 30 languages. This event will be followed by the screening of the cinematic adaptation of the book at McCosh 10 starting at 7:15 PM. More information on the link below.

Dinner as well as a copy of "Ru" will be offered to each registered attendees.

Registration for the film screening: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/screening-of-ru-2023-qa-with-award-winning-author-kim-thuy-tickets-1280141992159?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Fri, Apr 25, 2025
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Film Festival - Screening of "Ru" (2023) + Q&A with author Kim Thuy

As part of the third edition of the Princeton French Film Festival, you're invited to the exceptional and exclusive screening of Ru (2023), a movie based on the eponymous autobiographical novel by award-winning writer Kim Thuy who will be in attendance for a Q&A.

Practical information:
Open to everyone upon registration. In Vietnamese and French with English subtitles, the screening will start at 7:15 PM on Friday, April 25th, 2025, and will last approximately 120 minutes. Doors to the screening room open at 7:00 PM.

Synopsis:
After a dangerous sea crossing and a stay in a camp in Malaysia, the young Vietnamese Tinh and her family are accepted as refugees in Canada and arrive in Montreal where they begin their new life. But for Tinh, adapting has its share of difficulties. Already shy and reserved by nature, she must learn a new language and integrate into her new environment. Haunted by the hardships of the journey, Tinh will have to draw deep within herself the resilience necessary for her survival and her happiness.

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Forbes College Private Dining Room

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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Kim Thuy

Writer

A Vietnam-born Canadian author who was forced to leave her homeland with her parents at a young age along with the “boat people”, Kim Thuy found inspiration in her complex background and wrote eight novels for which she won numerous awards, including her autobiographical narrative Ru (2009) that was sold into half a million copies and translated into 30 languages. Throughout her artistic career, she also received several honorific distinctions and was named, in 2023, both Member of the Order of Canada and Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic.

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Co-hosted with: GradFUTURES, Vietnamese Students Association, French and Francophone Society, Princeton Undergraduate Francophone Society

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