RA CHOI

Director(s): Michael Frank
Country: Australia
Year: 2005
Language: English without subtitles
Length: 117 minutes
Website: www.rachoi.com

Program:
2 April - 22.00 hours - Filmmuseum Vondelpark Amsterdam

A groundbreaking Australian-Asian tale of four Vietnamese street kids down on their luck and trying to make a life for themselves. Asian and Western cultural norms clash as these teenager seek refuge in selling and using heroin, while society and their traditional families reject them.

“Ra Choi” is Vietnamese for “Coming out to play” and refers to the immersion into street life. Dac Kien, Lanh, Trinh and Lucy and their friends are more than just kids on the street. They are family who cannot survive without each other’s support

Director M. Frank spent one year researching / interviewing street kids in the drug capital Gambetta of Sydney. He also wrote the screenplay which received the best feature award from The Australian Writers’ Guild.