Ky Nam Inn
New York Asian Film Festival 2026
July 10 - 23
From Song Lang director Leon Le, this hushed, beautifully composed chamber drama set in 1985 Saigon centers on a romance between a young translator and a widowed cook from the defeated South.
Screening + Q&A
with Leon Le
Saturday, July 18
Showtimes
Sat, July 18
Wed, July 22
Screening + Q&A
with Leon Le
Saturday, July 18
Leon Le, whose debut Song Lang (NYAFF 2019 Audience Award winner) marked him as one of Vietnam’s most elegant new filmmakers, returns with a hushed, beautifully composed chamber drama shot on 35mm. In 1985 Saigon, Khang, a young translator from a well-connected northern family, arrives to work on a new Vietnamese translation of The Little Prince. In his new building lives Ky Nam, a widowed cook from the defeated South, guarded, solitary, and marked by a history the new order would rather forget. When an injury leaves her unable to work, Khang begins helping her, a wary arrangement that deepens through meals, old songs, withheld confidences, and the charged quiet of rooms where the past is never quite past. Ky Nam Inn made its world premiere at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.
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