''14 Days, 12 Nights'' () is a 2019 Canadian
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
directed by
Jean-Philippe Duval
Jean-Philippe Duval (born 1968) is a Canadian film and television director from Quebec City, Quebec. He is most noted for his 1999 films '' Matroni and Me (Matroni et moi)'', for which he received Jutra Award nominations for Best Director and Best ...
and written by
Marie Vien. It stars
Anne Dorval
Anne Dorval (; born November 8, 1960) is a French Canadian television, stage, and film actress. She is known for her work with Xavier Dolan that includes appearing in five of his films, '' I Killed My Mother'' (2009), '' Heartbeats'' (2010), '' La ...
as Isabelle Brodeur, a Canadian woman whose grief over the accidental death of her adopted
Vietnamese-born teenage daughter leads her to undertake a trip to Vietnam to meet Thuy Nguyen (
Leanna Chea), the girl's birth mother.
Release
The film premiered at the
Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival
The Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival () is an annual film festival which takes place in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada.Sean Gordon"How one region in hard-hit Quebec has so little COVID-19 it can hold a film festival" CBC News, Oc ...
in October 2019 and had its commercial premiere in February 2020.
Accolades
See also
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List of Canadian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
References
External links
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2019 films
Canadian drama films
Films set in Vietnam
Quebec films
2019 drama films
Films directed by Jean-Philippe Duval
2010s French-language films
Films about Vietnamese Canadians
French-language Canadian films
2010s Canadian films
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