Vietnamese-Canadian filmmaker Carol Nguyen's feature documentary debut, Still Night, Burning House, will have its world premiere in the Toronto International Film Festival's TIFF Docs program, featuring the year's best non-fiction filmmaking.
In this Metafilms, National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and Portage Films co-production, the director's Toronto family travels to Vietnam, where they face long-unspoken questions about an uncle's mysterious death.
The Montreal-based filmmaker's most personal work to date, Still Night, Burning House is the follow-up and companion to her award-winning 2019 short No Crying at the Dinner Table, which was named to Canada's Top Ten, TIFF's annual list of the country's finest films.
The festival will also host the September 16 world premiere of the NFB/TIFF short documentary initiative REDEFINED, in which five next-generation filmmakers from across the country explore the diversity of Canadian and Indigenous identity and celebrate the differences that unite us as a country.
TIFF 2026 runs September 10-20.
About Carol Nguyen's Still Night, Burning House (76 min)
Producers: Audrey-Ann Dupuis-Pierre (Portage Films); Robert Vroom and Ariel Nasr (NFB)
Executive producers: Sylvain Corbeil (Metafilms), Nathalie Cloutier (NFB), Bob Moore (EyeSteelFilm) and Anh Duy Vo Dinh (Spotlight Production)
