Guus Bosman

Betrayal is an absolutely amazing documentary. The movie is filmed during a period of over 23 years, and starts in Laos, where the filmmaker and main character of the movie lives with his parents. They are forced to leave Laos when the Americans lost the war in Vietnam and the Communists come to power in Laos, because the father worked with the Americans.

After many travels the family ultimately migrates to the States, arriving in a very bad neighborhood in Brooklyn. They are without the father who had been sent to a 'reeducation camp' in Laos. I won't give away what ultimately happens in the film, but it's breathtaking to realize that this is an actual, real-life documentary and not a fictional movie. Very gripping, very beautiful.

Sasha and I saw this documentary last year at the Full Frame festival in Durham. It is now nominated for an Oscar.