Khoa Lê
Khoa Lê is a Canadian-Vietnamese film director, stage director, producer, and screenwriter based in Montreal. He earned a bachelor's degree in filmmaking from the Université du Québec à Montréal, followed by a degree in film production at the INIS in 2008. After his studies, he directed several short films before releasing his first feature documentary, Bà Nôi (2013), which won awards at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM). The film was also nominated for Best Documentary at the 2015 Jutra Awards. He has also directed music videos for artists such as Ingrid St-Pierre, Émile Bilodeau, and Dear Criminals. In 2023, he released Mother Saigon, a documentary exploring the realities of Saigon’s LGBTQ+ community, which won the Colin Low Award for Best Canadian Documentary at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival. As an engaged and multidisciplinary artist, Khoa Lê focuses on themes of identity, exile, memory, and marginalized communities, offering deeply personal and visually poetic narratives.
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Má Sài Gòn (Mother Saigon)
Duration: 3h18
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In Saigon, family culture carries on as it has for centuries, even when blood ties are broken. Through a mosaic of intimate portraits, _Má Sài Gòn_ explores humanity’s universal desire for love, acceptance, connection and belonging through an LGBTQ+ lens. The film is a love letter – a bittersweet ode to a comforting yet disturbing mother, to a city that is as liberating as it is oppressive.
Bà nội (grandma)
Khoa Lê fait la chronique d’un voyage au Vietnam, en visite dans sa famille lointaine pour les festivités de fin d’année. Des lieux et des visages à la fois familiers et étrangers, des échanges, mais aussi des non-dits. Le temps a passé, les kilomètres aussi. Face à la personnalité haute en couleur de la grand-mère, portrait et autoportrait se mêlent avec autant d’humour que d’émotions. Et peu ...
Má Sài Gòn (Mother Saigon)
Duration: 3h18
Subscription access
In Saigon, family culture carries on as it has for centuries, even when blood ties are broken. Through a mosaic of intimate portraits, _Má Sài Gòn_ explores humanity’s universal desire for love, acceptance, connection and belonging through an LGBTQ+ lens. The film is a love letter – a bittersweet ode to a comforting yet disturbing mother, to a city that is as liberating as it is oppressive.
Bà nội (grandma)
Khoa Lê fait la chronique d’un voyage au Vietnam, en visite dans sa famille lointaine pour les festivités de fin d’année. Des lieux et des visages à la fois familiers et étrangers, des échanges, mais aussi des non-dits. Le temps a passé, les kilomètres aussi. Face à la personnalité haute en couleur de la grand-mère, portrait et autoportrait se mêlent avec autant d’humour que d’émotions. Et peu ...
