8-year-old Hung misses his mother who passed away recently. His loneliness deepens as his friend leaves the town. One night, while watching shooting stars, he sees a big one falling. He runs to the spot and discovers a beautiful, luminant extraterrestrial visitor named Maika. The film explores this encounter between an alien crash-landing and a boy suffering loss and loneliness. There’s plenty of action and adventure as the boy tries to save the beautiful alien from the bad guys. Sound familiar? As the first sci-fi action/adventure family film from Vietnam, Maika: The Girl From Another Galaxy is one for all audiences, charged with unique characters and Hollywood references stimulating 1980s’ nostalgia. (KIM Young-woo)