The Greatest Country in the World | |
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French | Le meilleur pays du monde |
Directed by | Ky Nam Le Duc |
Written by | Ky Nam Le Duc |
Produced by | Ky Nam Le Duc Étienne Hansez |
Starring |
Nguyen Thanh Tri Mickaël Gouin Stanley Junior Jean-Baptiste Schelby Jean-Baptiste |
Cinematography | Isabelle Stachtchenko |
Edited by | Ky Vy Le Duc |
Music by | Alexis Aubin-Marchand Thomas Champagne |
Production company | Les Films de l’Autre |
Distributed by | FunFilm Distribution |
Release date |
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Running time | 112 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Languages | French Vietnamese English |
The Greatest Country in the World ( French: Le meilleur pays du monde) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Ky Nam Le Duc and released in 2019. [1] Set in a reality in which Canada has just elected a far right government that is threatening to deport refugees and immigrants, the film centres on Hiên ( Nguyen Thanh Tri), a Vietnamese immigrant who is preparing to move back to Vietnam, and Alex ( Mickaël Gouin), the boyfriend of Hiên's daughter Phuong (Alice Tran) who has already left the country, as they help Junior (Stanley Junior Jean-Baptiste) try to locate his mother Roseline ( Schelby Jean-Baptiste) when she disappears. [2]
The film premiered at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in 2019. [1] It was screened at the Reelworld Film Festival in 2020, where it won the Audience Choice Award, [3] and at the 2020 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, [4] before going into commercial release in 2021. [5]
Nguyen Thanh Tri received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Actor at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022. [6]
The Greatest Country in the World | |
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French | Le meilleur pays du monde |
Directed by | Ky Nam Le Duc |
Written by | Ky Nam Le Duc |
Produced by | Ky Nam Le Duc Étienne Hansez |
Starring |
Nguyen Thanh Tri Mickaël Gouin Stanley Junior Jean-Baptiste Schelby Jean-Baptiste |
Cinematography | Isabelle Stachtchenko |
Edited by | Ky Vy Le Duc |
Music by | Alexis Aubin-Marchand Thomas Champagne |
Production company | Les Films de l’Autre |
Distributed by | FunFilm Distribution |
Release date |
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Running time | 112 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Languages | French Vietnamese English |
The Greatest Country in the World ( French: Le meilleur pays du monde) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Ky Nam Le Duc and released in 2019. [1] Set in a reality in which Canada has just elected a far right government that is threatening to deport refugees and immigrants, the film centres on Hiên ( Nguyen Thanh Tri), a Vietnamese immigrant who is preparing to move back to Vietnam, and Alex ( Mickaël Gouin), the boyfriend of Hiên's daughter Phuong (Alice Tran) who has already left the country, as they help Junior (Stanley Junior Jean-Baptiste) try to locate his mother Roseline ( Schelby Jean-Baptiste) when she disappears. [2]
The film premiered at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in 2019. [1] It was screened at the Reelworld Film Festival in 2020, where it won the Audience Choice Award, [3] and at the 2020 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, [4] before going into commercial release in 2021. [5]
Nguyen Thanh Tri received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Actor at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022. [6]