

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