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SOMEWHERE UNKNOWN IN INDOCHINA - VR

Can a living person dream of a ghost's dreams and assume ghosts can dream? This VR project reveals a forgotten Indochinese refugee camp in Asia and tells a story about a dream within another. The narrative is based on an unknown Vietnamese refugee camp in Penghu, Taiwan, and includes a dream about an unidentified female victim from the Khmer Rouge period.

Phuong, the protagonist, was a 13-year-old Vietnamese refugee born in Cambodia. Now, at 55, she resides in Brussels.

In those dreams, an unidentified Cambodian girl reveals the story of Phuong's family by asking, "HAVE YOU EVER BEEN THERE?" But what does she mean by "there"?

  • Asio LIU Chihsiung
    Director
  • Feng-Ting TSOU
    Director
  • Asio LIU Chihsiung
    Producer
  • CHANG-MIEN CHANG
    Key Cast
    "Chi"
  • GENN LAU
    Key Cast
    "Thuy"
  • CHIN-LUN KAO
    Key Collaborators
  • Renaud BARNE
    Key Collaborators
  • Asio LIU Chihsiung
    Writer
  • Feng-Ting TSOU
    Writer
  • Wen-Chi CHANG
    Writer
  • AN TÔN THẤT
    Music
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    中南半島未知某處（CHUNG-NAN-PAN-TAO WEI-CHIH-MOU-CHU）
  • Project Type:
    Virtual Reality, 360 Video
  • Genres:
    Trauma, Family, War, Refugee
  • Runtime:
    37 minutes 24 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 13, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    215,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Taiwan
  • Language:
    French, Vietnamese
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • The 81st Venice Film Festival
    Venice
    Italy
    August 28, 2024
    World Premiere
    Official selection
  • The 24th Kaohsiung Film Festival
    Kaohsiung
    Taiwan
    October 12, 2024
    Asia Premiere
    Official Selection
  • The 27th Thessaloniki International Film Festival
    Thessaloniki
    Greece
    February 24, 2025
    Greece Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 2025 The 26th Laval Virtual
    Laval
    France
    April 9, 2025
    France Premiere
    Offcial Selection
  • The 7th Gabes Cinema Fen
    Gabes
    Tunisia
    April 26, 2025
    African Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Bozar Brussels Immersive Cinema
    Brussels
    Belgium
    January 16, 2026
    Belgium Premiere
    Official Selection
Distribution Information
  • HOPE CONTENT MARKETING CO., LTD.
    Sales Agent
    Country: Taiwan
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Asio LIU Chihsiung, Feng-Ting TSOU

Asio Chihsiung LIU (right) is the founder/director/DP of MIMEO FILMS Ltd. (Taipei). His feature documentary EXOTIC EXOTICISM: PLANT WARS (2007) was officially screened in the 2009 Documentary Fortnight at MoMA (New York). His directorial debut, AND SHE WASN'T, was included in the 2001 Sundance Film Festival's Shorts Program.

Feng-Ting TSOU obtained his MFA in animation and digital art from the University of Southern California (USC), where he joined Paul Debevec’s VFX research team. After graduating from USC, he worked as a project producer at Sony Online Entertainment.

[ LIU's Filmography]
2024 SOMEWHERE UNKNOWN IN INDOCHINA - VR
2023 CHIN LIU TAO: SOMEWHERE UNKNOWN IN INDOCHINA
2019 THE DEAD, THE DAY AFTER
2015 JOURNEY TO THE PROMISED ISLAND
2007 PORTRAIT TAIWAN II: HUANG HAI-DAI
2007 EXOTIC EXOTICISM: PLANT WARS
2007 EXOTIC GIRLS
2006 KNIVES@SCHOOL
2004 MONUMENT TO MOMENTS
2001 AND SHE WASN'T

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Director Statement

“Have You Ever Been There? The Refugee Camp is to be demolished next month.”