Still Night, Burning House

In her deeply personal debut feature, award-winning filmmaker Carol Nguyen charts her family’s first reunion since her uncle’s mysterious death. Travelling together to Vietnam, the family embarks on a revelatory—and at times uncanny—journey through intergenerational trauma and many-layered loss. With care and probing curiosity, Nguyen guides her loved ones as they navigate unsealed medical records and a decades-long silence, ultimately leading them back to each other. A metaphysical poem for complex mourning, Still Night, Burning House shows how storytelling can transform grief into collective healing.

76 min None+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: aspectratio.1-50-1

Production Companies: Metafilms, ONF | NFB, Portage Films inc.

Country: Canada
Production Country: Canada
Languages: English, Vietnamese