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Century of Smoke

“A social chronicle that reveals the endurance of women, carrying out an ordinary fight to survive in the shadows.”

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Laosan, a young family man, spends all his time smoking opium. For his community, lost in the heart of the Laotian jungle, opium farming is the only way to survive. But opium is also the poison that puts men to sleep and kills their desires.

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Status
Released
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Language
Lao
  • political activism
  • opium
  • community
  • laos
  • jungle
  • drugs
  • family
  • slow cinema
  • father son relationship
  • ethnic conflict
  • ethnology

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Produced in

Belgium, France, Lao People's Democratic Republic

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Release dates

  • IndiaIN

    • PremiereArthouse Asia Film Festival7 Jan 2020
  • AustraliaAU

    • PremiereSydney World Film Festival / Winner: Best Documentary Feature Film15 Apr 2020
  • AustriaAT

    • PremiereEthnocineca - International Documentary Film Festival Vienna13 May 2020
  • BelgiumBE

    • PremiereBrussels International Film Festival26 Jun 2019
    • TheatricalNational release5 Sept 2019
    • PremiereGhent Viewpoint Documentary Film Festival / Winner: Best Belgian Documentary Film15 May 2020
  • BrazilBR

    • PremiereSão Paulo International Film Festival15 Oct 2019
  • ColombiaCO

    • PremiereFestival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de Indias12 Mar 2020
  • FranceFR

    • PremiereEscales Documentaires - La Rochelle International Creative Documentary Festival8 Nov 2019
    • TheatricalFestival International Filmer le Travail / Winner: Grand Prize14 Feb 2020
    • PremiereNancy International Film Festival / Winner: Grand Prize - Best International Documentary Film29 Aug 2020
  • GermanyDE

    • PremiereMunich International Documentary Festival11 May 2019
  • GuatemalaGT

    • PremiereÍcaro Central American International Film Festival9 Nov 2020
  • IndonesiaID

    • PremiereArkipel - Jakarta International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival15 Jun 2020
  • SpainES

    • PremiereMiradasDoc International Documentary Film Festival15 Jan 2020
  • SwitzerlandCH

    • PremiereVisions du Réel6 Apr 2019

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Century of Smoke was released on 5 September 2019.

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