Nguyễn Thi Hong Vaan is a poet, publicist and local debutante, raised in Jaffa and currently living in Tel Aviv. Van Nguyen appeared in a feature documentary film called "The Journey of Vaan Nguyen" (Israel 2005) by filmmaker Duki Dror. The film follows Vaan's trip with her father back to Vietnam in order to examine the fate of the family's land and property during the years. Wikipedia
A poignant portrait of the kind of cultural displacement only history can create Duki Dror's docu The Journey of Vaan Nguyen follows a father and daughter as they travel from adopted home Israel to his Vietnamese birthplace. Gracefully handled, bitterswee www.variety.com/review/VE1117930057?categoryid=31&cs=1
Review Summary For decades, Hoiami Nguyen, his wife and his daughter Vaan have suffered as ethnic anomalies in their present homeland. movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=349557
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Vaan Nguyen was born in Israel to parents who fled Vietnam in 1975, became boat people and found asylum in Israel. Today Vaan is a fixture among Tel Aviv's young, beautiful and fashionable. She sounds and feels totally Israeli. She thinks in Hebrew, bu www.onejerusalem.com/2006/02/page/2/
