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Summer School, 2001 [screening + Q&A]

Date & Time

📅 Mon, Mar 16, 2026

🕐 11:00 PM

Ends: Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 1:00 AM

Location

📍 Bohemian National Hall

321 East 73rd Street, New York, NY 10021, United States, New York, NY, 10021

🏙️ New York

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New York premiere of a tender, funny family coming-of-age story set in a Vietnamese community of Cheb, followed by Q&A w/ Dužan Duong.

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Summer School, 2001 / dir. Dužan Duong / 2025 / drama / Czechia / Czech with English subtitles / 102 min

Summer, 2001. Seventeen-year-old Kien, with his bright red hair, returns to his family at the Cheb market after spending ten years in Vietnam. But instead of a warm welcome, he finds an estranged father, a worried mother, and a younger brother who isn’t ready to forgive or forget. Between heat-pressing Pokémon onto T-shirts, drilling Czech grammar, and lakeside flirtations, a buried secret surfaces—one that will turn life at the market upside down… Told with lightness and humor, director Dužan Duong’s film offers an authentic look into a community through the eyes of the first Vietnamese generation to grow up in the Czech Republic.

Dužan Duong is a director and cinematographer of Vietnamese origin. He made his debut at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival with the short film Mat Goc and gained significant attention with the film Bo Hai (screened at FAMUfest, Finále Plzeň, Prague Shorts, SGIFF, and Cottbus IFF). His work focuses on themes of identity and cultural memory. He also works as a cinematographer in advertising under the brand Novák+Nguyen.

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