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Posted by John Martz, August 10, 2020

Chez moi from Phuong Mai Nguyen is an often unsettling story told from the perspective of a young boy, who wakes up one morning to find that his single mother has had a visitor spend the night. The tense alienating presence of this new man in his mother's life is made all the more strange by the fact that he is not a man at all, but a large bird.