LIGHT OF THE SETTING SUN
Film poster for "Light of the Setting Sun" with a highway surrounded by trees.
LIGHT OF THE SETTING SUN
Film poster for "Light of the Setting Sun" with a highway surrounded by trees.
A Taiwanese-American filmmaker questions her family's silence around the cycles of violence that have persisted since the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949

LIGHT OF THE SETTING SUN

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GRAND JURY PRIZE - San Diego Asian Film Festival | EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD FOR DOCUMENTARY FEATURE - Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival | OFFICIAL SELECTION - IDFA

Intergenerational Trauma • Mental Health • Asian-American Identity • Family • Personal Story • China • Taiwan • Immigration • Diaspora


Date of Completion: 2024 | Run Time: 74 minutes | Language: English & Chinese (Mandarin) with English subtitles | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Director: Vicky Du Producers: Vicky Du & Danielle Varga | Executive Producers: Jean Tsien & Don Young | Editor: Terra Long | Cinematographers: Jih-E Peng & Daniel Chein | Composer: Troy Herion

In her deeply personal and moving directorial debut, filmmaker Vicky Du unravels her family’s war-torn history across three generations and three countries — China, Taiwan, and the United States. LIGHT OF THE SETTING SUN is a poetic exploration of the unspoken, revealing how inherited trauma, insecurity, and the echoes of war shape both memory and identity. Through archival footage, personal reflections, and intimate interviews, Du crafts a candid and compassionate meditation on survival and the lasting impact of her family’s escape from the 1949 Chinese Communist Revolution.