Birds Return

A short film by Tran Vu

The plot of the film revolves around revolutionary soldiers who come from different classes, but all share the same patriotism. They had to overcome many life-and-death challenges and enormous adversities in order to mobilise the masses to prepare for an uprising and seize power from the Japanese fascists, in a situation where the country fell into the tragedy of famine.

A young girl searches for her father, a soldier in the PAVN, after her mother and sister are killed during Christmas Bombings.

Vietnamese guerrillas move into a village adjoining a French/US airstrip and recruit locals to help them bring it down.

The main character in the film is a real person in history - the hero of the Vietnamese people's army, Cu Chinh Lan, set in the middle of the resistance war against the French (circa 1951) on the battlefield in North Vietnam.

With his parents busied by the toils of daily life during the subsidy days, little Minh's grandmother is closest to him in the family. Until one day...

While awaiting the return of her husband from the war, a woman is brutally raped and becomes pregnant. Inconsolable, she grows increasingly tormented.

A woman volunteers to help the Revolutionaries' trucks hide from bombing raids in Truong Son forests.

An engineer devises a plan that will help a farm improve its staggering business, but is dismissed the farm’s manager.

In colonial French Indochina, a woman sells her daughter and four dogs in a desperate attempt to save her husband from torture when they can’t pay off the government taxes.

March to the Front depicts the Resistance War Against America (Vietnam War) through the lens of romance.