‘Summer School, 2001,’ the First Czech-Vietnamese Feature, Is Coming to America via Cinemas, Amazon (Exclusive)

The first Czech-Vietnamese feature film, *Summer School, 2001*, is getting a limited US cinema release before streaming on Amazon. Its release brings Vietnamese and Central European diaspora stories to audiences amid public debate about immigration and belonging.

Directed by Dužan Duong, the film follows 17-year-old Kien as he returns to his family’s market stall in the Czech border town of Cheb after ten years in Vietnam. It opens at selected Cinemark cinemas on 11 December and streams on Amazon from 18 December; it previously drew more than 20,000 cinema-goers in the Czech Republic and won awards in Czech and Vietnamese film festivals.