DOCUMENTARY
Pho: The Untold Film
A documentary series that treats pho as more than a dish: a vessel of memory, migration, and cultural identity.
Project overview
A familiar food becomes a way of talking about roots, belonging, labor, and what a community carries forward.
“Pho: The Untold Film” explores the iconic bowl through cinema-minded storytelling, drawing out the histories, rituals, and emotional inheritance packed into an everyday meal.
Story direction
Pho appears not only as cuisine, but as narrative material capable of carrying national memory and personal emotion at once.
“Pho: The Untold Film” explores the iconic bowl through cinema-minded storytelling, drawing out the histories, rituals, and emotional inheritance packed into an everyday meal.
Behind the frame
Pho: The Untold Film
A familiar dish can still become a deeply emotional piece of storytelling when the lens is honest enough.
Frame 01
Steam, ritual, and memory all become part of the frame.
Production information
Vietnam production partner
Food can carry cinema too
A familiar dish can still become a deeply emotional piece of storytelling when the lens is honest enough.
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