Thien Pham
2) Sumo
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
A failure as a football player and as a boyfriend, Scott accepts a position in a sumo-training school in Japan. Far from home, he begins to find purpose and solace. Full-color illustrations
Scott, abandoned by his girlfriend and having lost his dream of playing professional football, is offered a position in a Japanese sumo training "stable," where he seems to find himself again.
3) Level Up
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Dennis, the son of Chinese immigrants, yearns to play video games like his friends and, upon his strict father's death, becomes obsessed with them but later, realizing how his father sacrificed for him, he chooses a nobler path.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Winner of the prestigious Camera d'Or for best first film at this year's Cannes Film Festival, the enthralling Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell from Vietnamese filmmaker Pham Thien An is a reverie on faith, loss, and nature expressed with uncommon invention and depth. It₂s a simple tale told with visual complexity: after a car accident claims the life of his sister-in-law and leaves his 5-year-old nephew an orphan, a thirtysomething man named Thien...