Amerasians

"I’ve never met my father. I think his name was Mike." At the end of the Vietnam War, over 100,000 Vietnamese children with American GI fathers were left behind to face discrimination in their own homeland because they looked a bit different. In 1988, the U.S. Congress passed the Amerasian Homecoming Act permitting these children to emigrate to the United States with their families. Almost overnight, they went from being an underprivileged sub-class to being Golden Children with a free ride to the land of dreams. They did not dream, however, how foreign this new world would be to them once they arrived. 31 year-old director Erik Gandini's sensitive documentary follows the Amerasians as they search for their own identity and a sense of self.