Several decades in the future, an astronaut on Mars contacts his father on Earth and ask him about how things were in the past, in Vietnam. Several of the Vietnamese ethnic minorities, Ruc, Kor and Hmong are explored.
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“[T]o me, Mars isn’t necessarily a metaphor, because it is something you can consider realistic. It could happen. The idea that we as humans have to be far away from home has already happened. So, in the film, Mars is like a screen to project our imagination onto, to make things a bit more interesting for the film. But the foundation of that idea is something real; it’s about our life, how we have to move away from home and be homeless in the true meaning of that term.”
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Andrew Northrop, “‘Home, far away from Home’: Truong Minh Quý on The Tree House,” Senses of Cinema, April 2020.
