MAIFF 2026  -

EMW

Loney and Havender

June 13th

3:00 PM

Goethe-Institut Montreal

Fiction

116

minutes

German, Vietnamese

Content Warning:

About the Film

Director

Claudia Tuyết Scheffel

Country

Germany

Year

2025

Program

EMW 3

Curated by

MAiFF Programming Team

Description

Synopsis | To experience snow and learn German, the young Vietnamese woman Trúc Lâm moves to a little town in the Erz Mountains. During a guided tour of a mine, she leaves her group and reaches the other side of the mountain through a secondary shaft. The world there is similar to the one she left – only all the people are different. She meets Duc, who is also from Vietnam and whose parents have an Asian snack bar. And she meets a mysterious spirit who offers to make a deal with her to enable her return to her old world.

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About the Director
Claudia Tuyết Scheffel
Director
Claudia Tuyết Scheffel was born to a Vietnamese mother and a German father in Germany. She studied film at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg where she graduated with her first feature film LONIG & HAVENDEL (Loney & Havender). For the documentary HASS.HETZE.HOFFNUNG. – THE MURDER OF LI YANGJIE she won the Grimme-Prize 2026, Germany’s most renowned award for TV and journalism. In 2021 she published her first novel SCHERBEN IM PLATEAU.
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Awards & Festival Recognition

2025 Cottbus Film Festival, 2025 Filmfest Hamburg premieren

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