After five agonising years in limbo, Mauricio Osaki‘s debut feature Xe tải của bố [My Father’s Truck] is finally coming back to life and entering its final phase in post-production. Composer Tôn Thất An is completing the score before the film gets submitted to film festivals.

“A few days before flying to Busan, I watched the newest cut of a film for which I did the music some five years ago: ‘Xe tải của bố’ [My Father’s Truck], a Vietnamese film shot in the region of Hanoi by Saigon-based Brazilian-Japanese director Mauricio Osaki.
At the time of the music composition, we were all in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Working conditions were far from ideal on many levels, as Mauricio was engulfed in a long and exhausting legal battle to protect his film. and defend the dignity of all who were involved in the project. Personally, I had been micro-managed by the editor and was far from pleased with what came out. So I left that film behind with bitter feeling. But time does mend things and when I saw this new version, I was surprised to find that the music wasn’t that bad after all. Trung Anh’s performance as the taciturn father is powerful and masterful!
Now we’re back at it. I only need to rewrite the end credit music and revise how the music plays in a couple of scenes. My Father’s Truck will soon see the day of light sometime in 2027.
The making of ‘Xe tải của bố’ is another story of resilience, patience, artistic solidarity and dedication.
With Yvonne YiFang Zuo’s ‘Beyond the River’ and Erik Shirai’s “How to feed a hungry Ghost’, all of them the children of this new generation of Asian transnational cinema, it’s three films that needed a long years to fully find their final shape and go out in the world at the ripe time.”