Child of Dust

Plot

Sang is one of 300.000 children left behind by American soldiers after the Vietnam War, born to Vietnamese woman. When he unexpectedly finds his father in the U.S., he wants to meet him, even though it comes at a price of leaving his beloved family. Cultural barriers and unspoken pain collide when the past catches up with the present.

About Child of Dust

Child of Dust (Polish: Dziecko z Pyłu) is a documentary film written and directed by Weronika Mliczewska. The film follows Sang Thanh Ngô, an Amerasian man born during the Vietnam War, as he searches for his American father. It is a Poland-Vietnam-Sweden-Czech Republic-Qatar co-production, produced by Mliczewska, Chi-Minh De Leo and Bao Nguyen. The film was acquired by Berlin-based Rise and Shine World Sales ahead of its Thessaloniki Documentary Festival Premiere, where it received a Special Mention from the documentary competition jury. It won Best International Documentary, Best National Documentary and Best Editing at the 65th Krakow Film Festival in May 2025. In November 2025, Child of Dust was included among the documentary films deemed eligible for consideration in the Best Documentary Feature category at the 98th Academy Awards.

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