Child of Dust
Dziecko z pyłu
- The Czech Republic, Poland, Sweden, Vietnam, Qatar
- 2025
- 93'
- The Rebels
Sang is one of the many children fathered by American soldiers during the Vietnam War. He has lived his entire life on the outskirts of mainstream society, under the burden of rejection, poverty, and prejudices. Even though he has managed to start his own family, he and his wife share the impression that there is a curse hanging over him. In an attempt to banish the curse, he wants to reconnect with his daughters and then travel to the United States, to find his biological father. Will confronting the painful past bring the peace he so desires and help him change his own fate? The film ‘Child of Dust’ is a touching documentary that deals with identity, heritage, and the need to belong. It is a story about a man looking for his place somewhere between the things that were and the things that are.
- Directed by: Weronika Mliczewska
- Photography: Mikael Lypinski
- Production: Ya Man Studio
A documentary film director and an author. She is a graduate of Goldsmiths, University of London (Department of Filmmaking and Anthropology), the University of Warsaw, and also post-graduate at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles). She has spent most of her life abroad, engaged in film projects in Uganda, Nigeria, Mexico, India, Vietnam, Spain, South Africa, and the United States. Her film work stems firmly from an anthropological perspective on the world around – her focus is on people and cultures, looking at them from a deeply universal and humane angle.
