Mai Hua

Make Me a Man

“Wearing a mask is the first lesson in patriarchal masculinity a boy learns,” said bell hooks. Here's what's behind the mask. For 25 years, London therapist Jerry Hyde has offered support groups for men wishing to explore the greatest prohibition of virilist culture: their vulnerability. In a post #metoo era, he decides with his partner, director Mai HUA, to produce a documentary essay to help change masculine culture. “Powerful and Poetic” according to Le Monde, this series of interviews with men on a black background, interspersed with a walk in the Somme, on the commemoration sites of the First World War, is a valuable contribution to the question of gender and living together.

The Rivers

Mai Hua, French-Vietnamese single mom with two children, brings back her dying grandmother to France. As the old woman miraculously recovers, questions are raised within the family history, in particular a curse on the women of the family, revealing an intimate archeology of female lineage and universal quest for truth.