Dear Daughter | 給女兒的信

Logline 故事摘要
Letters from prison by Vietnamese refugee Tran The Manh to his daughter in Sweden and the filmmaker, tells the struggles of a man haunted by his diasporic past and locked in the cycles of poverty. 

獄中傳來越南船民世文寫給他遠在瑞典的女兒和導演的信，訴說著像自己這樣一個男人，如何被困在過去的離散生活及貧窮的惡性循環裡掙扎。

Synopsis 故事大綱
Dear Daughter tells the story of Tran The Manh, a Vietnamese refugee in Hong Kong. 40 years after he fled the war in Vietnam, Mạnh was still fighting against the demons of diasporic trauma, while being locked in the vicious cycles of poverty, drugs and crime. In spite of knife fights and forced evictions, Manh rebuilds his home in the streets again and again, and holds onto the faintest ray of hope by writing to his daughter in Sweden. As the documentary process unfolds, the film also chronicles the growing affection between Manh and the filmmaker. Through a narrative built upon their letters exchanged while Manh was in prison, the film gradually becomes a vessel that contains the hopes and pains of both. 

《給女兒的信》講述了滯留香港的越南船民世文的故事。從越南坐船逃離戰爭已經40年了，世文仍然於那些離散留下來的創傷鬥爭，被貧窮、毒品和犯罪的惡性循環捆綁著。在無日無之的械鬥與拆遷中，他依然不斷重新建造他的家園，依靠著寫信給在瑞典的女兒維繫自己微薄的希望。隨著拍攝進程，紀錄片也拍下了世文與導演之間逐漸增長的情感連結。敘事透過世文在服刑期間的交換信件建立，電影慢慢變成一個承載著雙方希望及痛苦的載體。

Director’s Statement 導演闡述
This story is about familial bonds severed by war and conflicts. 49 years have passed, and the aftermath of the Vietnam War and diaspora lingers on, deep in the psyche of a man struggling to survive at the bottom of society. Through documenting the plight of a Vietnamese refugee who reminds me of my own father, I wish to tell a story about three generations of a family affected by war and displacement. In recent years, thousands of Hong Kong families are immigrating every day. While past wounds remain unhealed after many decades, new wounds are still being created. Even so, we will never stop rebuilding our homes. I hope this film can help to shed some light on our world and our times. 

這是一個關於家庭連結被戰爭和衝突切斷的故事。49年過去了，越南戰爭和離散的後遺症依然深深地存在於一個在社會底層掙扎求生的男人心靈深處。通過紀錄這位越南船民的困境，我也想起了自己的父親。我希望能夠敘述三代家庭怎樣受到戰亂和流離失所影響的故事。這幾年，每天都有無數的香港家庭移民。過去的傷口即使過了數十年仍未癒合，新的傷口卻仍在不斷形成。即便如此，我們永遠不會停止重建我們的家園。希望這部電影能夠為我們的世界和時代，帶來一些光明。

Cheng Oi Yue, Jo 鄭藹如
Jo Cheng completed her Master’s degrees in Social Work and Health Psychology before she went on to learn documentary filmmaking with Tammy Cheung and Ying Liang. After directing two earlier short documentary films Via Dolorosa (2014) and 310 Tung Chau Street (2016), she is now working on her first feature-length documentary, Dear Daughter.

社會工作及健康心理學碩士，並跟隨張虹導演和應亮導演學習紀錄片拍攝。在完成早期兩部紀錄短片《苦路》（2014）及《通洲街310號》（2016）後，現正拍攝她的首部紀錄長片《給女兒的信》。

Ruby Yang 楊紫燁
Ruby Yang is a noted Chinese American filmmaker whose work in documentary and dramatic film has earned her wide recognition, including an Academy Award, two Academy nominations, Emmy nominations, and numerous other international awards. Currently based in Hong Kong, Yang is deeply involved in directing and producing documentary films. She founded the Hong Kong Documentary Initiative aiming to nurture the next generation of documentary filmmakers in the region. She is now the Director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong.

楊紫燁是美籍華裔電影工作者，作品曾獲第79屆奧斯卡最佳紀錄短片獎、第83屆奧斯卡最佳紀錄短片獎提名及多個國際獎項，2011年當選奧斯卡金像獎評委。楊紫燁現居香港，從事紀錄片拍攝與教學，她成立 「香港紀錄片拓展計劃」，指導並培育新一代的紀錄片工作者。她現為香港大學新聞及傳媒中心總監。