At the age of 21, my father hands me an envelope containing a family secret. Twenty years later, I attempt to untangle the lies and the things left unsaid that have shaped both my life and the lives of my family.
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Festivals & Awards
2025 États généraux du film documentaire de Lussas, France 2025 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Netherlands 2025 New York Independent Art Film Festival, United States · Best International Documentary Short Award 2026 Movies that Matter Festival, Netherlands 2026 Doc.Coimbra, Portugal 2026 Friss Hús Budapest International Short Film Festival, Hungary 2026 Les Yeux Ouverts, France 2026 FLIMM – Festival Libre du Moyen Métrage, France
Anaël Dang is a writer-director, cinematographer, editor, and photographer whose work explores intimacy as a space of tension between the individual and society. His cinema examines what remains unspoken, creates space for voices to be liberated, and transforms first-person narrative into a dialogue with “the self as another.”