Trung Kien Nguyen

A cinematic journey to the death in searching for the paradise of youth on the highlands of northern Vietnam.

This short film appears exactly like the love story of the couple it portrays: full of hesistation and genuine surprise, sometimes unsure of itself, scattered series of emotions and images seemingly resemble fractions of memories. Aiming towards a feeling rather than a plot, Soft Colours is precisely the youthful emotional throb in cinematic form.

Boi leads an isolated life on a mountain with his unwed daughter and his mentally disabled son Maize. Feeling death approach, he becomes obsessed with the continuation of the family line and he resolves to find his son a wife. After numerous intense but failed attempts to buy a woman for Maize, the father is driven to increasingly insane acts...