Mengikuti kehidupan seorang nenek dari masyarakat Rục yang menjaga hubungan antar generasi melalui bahasa, tubuh, dan alam sebagai metode pewarisan pengetahuan di tengah kehidupan yang terus mengalami perubahan. Film ini mengajak kita melihat bahwa ketika sesuatu tidak bisa dihentikan, mungkin yang masih bisa dilakukan adalah merawat dan mewarisinya, sekaligus mempertanyakan siapa yang memiliki kesempatan untuk menuliskan sejarah.

Following the life of an elderly woman from the Rục community, Hair, Paper, Water… explores intergenerational relationships through language, the body, and nature as ways of passing down knowledge amid a rapidly changing world. The film invites us to consider that when something cannot be stopped, what remains possible is to care for it and pass it on—while also questioning who is given the opportunity to write history.

TRƯƠNG Minh Quý lahir di Buon Ma Thuot, sebuah kota kecil di Dataran Tinggi Tengah Vietnam. Ia lulus dari Le Fresnoy – National Studio of Contemporary Arts (Prancis) pada 2021. Film-filmnya telah terpilih dalam berbagai festival film internasional dan pameran, termasuk Cannes, Berlinale, Locarno International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, IFFR, Busan International Film Festival, dan Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin.

Nicolas GRAUX lahir di Binche, sebuah kota kecil di wilayah bekas pertambangan batu bara di Belgia. Ia lulus dari IAD (Institut des Arts de Diffusion) dan mendirikan perusahaan produksi Replica bersama koleganya pada 2012. Film panjang debutnya, Century of Smoke (2019), merupakan potret sebuah keluarga Laos yang berjuang menghadapi kecanduan opium. Film tersebut ditayangkan perdana di Visions du Réel dan kemudian diputar di berbagai festival internasional, termasuk São Paulo, Munich, dan Cartagena.

TRƯƠNG Minh Quý was born in Buon Ma Thuot, a small city in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. He graduated from Le Fresnoy – National Studio of Contemporary Arts (France) in 2021. His films have been selected for international film festivals and exhibitions such as Cannes, Berlinale, Locarno International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, IFFR, Busan International Film Festival and Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. 

Nicolas GRAUX was born in Binche, a small town in Belgium’s former coal-mining region. He graduated from IAD (Institut des Arts de Diffusion) and co-founded the production company Replica in 2012. His debut feature, “Century of Smoke” (2019), a portrait of a Laotian family struggling with opium addiction, premiered at Visions du Réel and screened at international festivals such as São Paulo, Munich, and Cartagena.