Summer School, 2001

Summer 2001. Seventeen-year-old Kien, with his striking red hair, returns to his family in a market in Cheb after ten years in Vietnam. Instead of a warm welcome, he finds a distant father, a worried mother, and a younger brother who offers him nothing. Between ironing Pokémon onto t-shirts, drilling Czech language lessons, and dating by the lake, secrets surface that will turn the market community upside down. Told with lightness and wit, director Duzan Duong's film offers an authentic glimpse into the community through the eyes of the first Vietnamese generation to grow up in Czechia.