Director: Truong Minh Quy
Viet and Nam is a 2024 Vietnamese drama directed by Truong Minh Quy, following two young coal miners through a quiet, dangerous romance, now streaming in Persian on K-Time.
What is Viet And Nam about?
Deep below ground, Viet and Nam spend their shifts hauling coal through tunnels where the air itself feels like a countdown. Between blasts and cave-ins, they steal small, private moments that neither one names out loud. One of them is preparing to leave the country for work overseas, and that looming departure colors everything: a shared cigarette, a swim in a river, a night spent talking instead of sleeping. The film moves slowly and deliberately, more interested in gesture and silence than dialogue, tracing how two people hold onto something fragile while the ground literally shifts beneath them. It is as much about labor and class in contemporary Vietnam as it is about love.
Cast & crew
Phąm Thanh Hài and Đào Duy Bảo Định carry the film as the title characters, supported by Nguyên Thį Nga, Lê Viêt Tųng, and Ngân Khánh. Director Truong Minh Quy shoots the mine sequences with a tactile, almost documentary patience, letting long takes do the emotional work rather than score or dialogue.
Context & significance
The production spans an unusually wide international co-financing list — France, the Philippines, Vietnam, the United States, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, and Singapore — typical of festival-circuit arthouse cinema that rarely gets a theatrical release in North America, let alone a Persian-language version. For diaspora viewers curious about Southeast Asian cinema outside the usual English-language pipeline, this is a rare chance to see it with full Persian support at home.
Where & how to watch
Viet and Nam streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can choose either option depending on preference. Watching requires a free K-Time account login; the film page itself is readable without signing in. K-Time's interface is fully in Farsi, built for the Iranian diaspora watching from any country, on any screen — phone, tablet, browser, or TV — without VPN tricks or geo-blocks, and you can stop watching whenever you like.