EVEN THE WOMEN MUST FIGHT
Film Poster for "EVEN THE WOMEN MUST FIGHT".  Two young women hold pointed guns.
EVEN THE WOMEN MUST FIGHT
Film Poster for "EVEN THE WOMEN MUST FIGHT".  Two young women hold pointed guns.
When Vietnamese women speak, an old war story changes

EVEN THE WOMEN MUST FIGHT

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"This truth telling film should be distributed and seen by as many people as possible." - FranceUSA International Festival. | BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT & BEST EDITOR - Docs Without Borders | AWARD OF EXCELLENCE -Montgomery Film Festival | AWARD WINNER - Miami Women Film Festival

Female Warriors • Vietnam War • Women's Oral Histories • Asian Women in War • Women in War and Revolution • War and Memory • Gender and War

Date of Completion: 2023 | Run Time: 26 minutes​​ | Language: English & Vietnamese with English subtitles | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Director: Karen Turner | Executive Producers: Phan Thanh Hao & Karen Turner | Producers: Michael T. Barry, Jr & Suzanne Gottschang | Creative Director: D. Hoang | Editor: Michael T. Barry, Jr

Rare interviews with five female veterans of Ho Chi Minh's volunteer youth brigades, backed by archival footage from Northern Vietnamese combat cameraman, bring to life a new view of a long contested war. These women's oral histories challenge images of Vietnamese women as passive objects of a male media and military machine. Proud of their service under fire, honest about their post war suffering, they add unique insights to ongoing debates about women in the military, and why their stories are so often overlooked when the memory work begins.

FranceUSA International Festival
"This truth telling film should be distributed and seen by as many people as possible."

Cynthia Enloe | Author of Twelve Feminist Lessons of War, Does Khaki Become You, Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives
EVEN THE WOMEN MUST FIGHT is an eye-opening film for right now. It’s today, in the midst of myriad wars, that we each need to draw and refine lessons about war by listening intently to Vietnamese women about their wars - and their post-wars. Viewing this moving film made me think and rethink women’s experiences of war and its long, gendered aftermath.”

Wayne Karlin | Author of Wandering Souls: Journeys with the Dead
and the Living in Việt Nam
“These are the unheard stories from the Việt Nam War: the remarkable and moving account of the courage, resilience and humanity of Việt Nam's women warriors [...] If you want to understand why America's overwhelming technological superiority was never enough to win that war, watch this film.”