International Festival of Arts and Ideas Film Screening: Don't Burn In-Person
One of New Haven's Sister Cities is Hue, Vietnam. The International Festival of Arts and Ideas Sister Cities Film Screening will honor Hue Vietnam by showing the film: Don't Burn.
Don't burn follows an American soldier by the name of Fred Whitehurst (Mathew M. Korsch) positioned year 1970–1972 in Vietnam during the Vietnam war. While attacking a village, Fred finds a diary in an abandoned field hospital. With the help of a fellow soldier Huan (Ben Rindner) he starts translating the diary, which belonged to Dang Thuy Tram (Minh Houng), a doctor who was positioned at the field hospital for several years. She describes in vivid detail the horrors she experienced during the war: her friends die around her every day, food is scarce, and she misses her family. As Fred continues to read about the horrific fate of the wounded soldiers Thuy treated, he starts to see the humanity of his enemy and starts to have nightmares of the people he and the US army have killed.
- Date:
- Monday, May 12th, 2025
- Time:
- 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Mitchell Program Room
- Branch:
- Mitchell Branch
- Audience:
- Adults (19+)
- Categories:
- Literature, Arts and Culture
