My Father, the Panda Killer

"The horrors of war have ripple effects that reverberate in families and through communities for generations. This unsparing and sometimes surreal story – which alternates between teenage Jane, growing up in San Jose in the 1990s, and her father, Phúc, fleeing Vietnam as a child in the ’70s – shows a family floundering as the wounds of the past leave scars on a new generation. In painting this portrait, Jamie Jo Hoang also dives into the elusive nature of memory and explores how the stories that have been passed down to us are always incomplete – and how sometimes you have to get creative if you want to capture the truth before it slips through your fingers."