The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) (2008) 96 min

Filmed over the course of 23 years Director Ellen Kuras works with Laotian co-director Thavisouk Phrasavath who is the main focus of this film. Phrasavath and his family escape the grips of the communist regime in Laos directly after American soldiers back out of Vietnam and the allied troops they trained in Laos to help combat the North Vietnamese.  Phrasavath finds life in America as much of a struggle after losing a member to gang violence and how fear of these gangs forced them to live in their NYC apartment as prisoners.