| Regret to Inform | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Barbara Sonneborn |
| Written by | Barbara Sonneborn |
| Cinematography | Emiko Omori Daniel Reeves Nancy Schiesari |
| Editing by | Lucy Massie Phenix Ken Schneider |
| Release date(s) | 1998 |
| Running time | 72 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Regret to Inform is a 1998 documentary film directed by Barbara Sonneborn. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.[1]
The film was made over a span of ten years. The documentary features filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn as she goes to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband was killed. Her translator is a fellow war widow named Xuan Ngoc Nguyen and together try to understand their losses. The film includes interviews with Vietnamese and American widows.