Cinequest: "The White Silk Dress (Ao Lua ha Dong)"

(Vietnam, North American premiere). In Vietnamese with English subtitles. Directed by Huynh Luu. After slaving for a landlord all their lives, Dau and Gu finally manage to start a family of their own in 1950s Vietnam but soon get caught up in war and a cycle of poverty, losing everything but their faith in Ao Dai the symbol of the loftiness and purity of womanhood.