winner of the Tribeca Film Festival Special Jury Award for Best New Documentary Director, is a remarkable storyteller, offering a powerful and moving counter-narrative of the Vietnam War, which is largely portrayed through the eyes of white men. New Wave is a story that traces the peripheries of the war through the refugee community, but highlights the full lives of those in the diaspora—the trauma, yes, but also the spirit, the rebellion, the resistance, and the joy.
