Discoveries from Vietnam World Cinema

A young songstress begins to receive a mysterious, austere guest who lodges overnight at her inn.

The prestigious scholar Chu Van An resigns from his royal duties and returns to his small village, teaching children day by day. Among those who study with him is a strange boy with mysterious origins. One day, a prolonged drought happens, leading to a famine and the deaths of villagers.

Under the drizzling rain of the bustling Saigon city, a dreamy musician and a hard-headed realistic girl stumble across each other and fall in love. In the face of economic, social, familial, and romantic adversity, they are yet to answer their own questions on how to have a happy life.

An adaption from Vietnamese funny folktales.

A young policeman is determined to trace down the elusive Windy Devil Gang that has been wrecking terror and fear across the city. As the chase seems to know no bounds, the possibilities of discovery dissolve into infinity.

A lonely janitor hires a struggling actress to reenact ten favorite memories of his dead wife.

People think Han has become the boss;they react as well as treat him the same way they would if he had/they thought he had won a lot of money on the lottery. Their greedy minds lead into a lot of misunderstanding and chaos!

Mai, a ribbon dancer from the countryside arrives in Saigon and befriends Kim, a street dancer. A promise of a better life leads their dance crew to the big competition, but a romance with a rich kid threatens to derail Kim's plans.

A young girl searches for her father, a soldier in the PAVN, after her mother and sister are killed during Christmas Bombings.

A peasant opens a lucrative dog meat shop but becomes a subject of extreme loathing from the local people. When his shop is finally burned down, the man enlists the help of his son and nephews to leave their home and work as sawyers in a logging camp. However, his scheming and cruel nature seems to persist even in the vast forests.

Ca Dao is an ordinary girl, who is frustrated with her life and always dreams of being a singer. All things suddenly change when she meets Chan Y, a popular Korean star, when he has just arrived in Vietnam.

A hair washer confronts her loneliness on the city's most turbulent night.

A beautiful love story of two high school students

After a tumultuous arrival and subsequent stay in Da Lat for military training, Luan returns to Saigon a Major in the Presidential Special Forces. He and Thuy Dung continue their relationship. News that Ngo Dinh Diem is opening the Ban Me Thuot's Highland Economic Fair attracts many intelligence and security organizations, whose political purposes vary.

A beautiful reporter goes to the front line to find a soldier with whom she fell in love through correspondences.

An impoverished mentally disabled boy in Vietnam learns to deal with the loss of both of his parents.

After years of isolation in the hearing world, a mainstreamed Deaf adult learns sign language for the first time.

A Vietnamese woman from an ethnic minority is grieving over the death of her husband caused by the U.S. bomb. An American fighter pilot is shot down and desperately trying to survive under the U.S. bombing in the jungle where the woman lives.

Erik, a German man, meets with Thu, the mother of his deceased lover, Minh. Thu wants to bring Minh's ashes back to Vietnam, but Erik is not ready for that just yet.

A petty criminal plans to take revenge on the neighbour who he believes to have reported him to the police.

The city girls include : Royal American ( Kathy Uyen ) , Tuyet Dung ( Thuy Nga ) and Ngoc Vy ( Hoang Oanh ) bumped into each other while sitting together boat. Each of her own purpose for the trip , but they decided to make friends to enjoy the happy moments in the isle . After a night of partying "drop door " , the three wake up in the boat with the ragged shape and clean forget what happened to me the day before. Trip down " what has happened " about their group's fall resulted in itinerary are gangsters chase group .

Having a car accident at night, a man comes to a strange house nearby to ask for help. What he sees in the house makes him more confused and worried.

A video sketch at Hayama's bed, situated in Bangkok.

Two talented swimmers from a small village are invited by a factory to compete for their team in national tournaments, but soon discover they are being used as a publicity ploy by the factory.

A woman tries to cling onto dimming links to her past after inheriting a pygmy slow loris from her long-estranged husband; meanwhile, her niece prepares for marriage as the young couple ponders their gloomy future together. The present and the complex echoes of Vietnamese history are entwined before a contemplative and poetic perspective.

Huy is a Sagittarius playboy, fun-loving and always surrounded by short-term girlfriends, one of whom is Chi, an aggressive Leo who always tries her best to get what she wants. Then My, an innocent and gentle Pisces, comes into his life, taking his breath away despite their opposing zodiac sign combination. Hence, Huy devises five steps to capturing My's heart. Coupling smart storytelling and clever inserts of the zodiac signs, the movie will lead its audience from one surprise to another as it uncovers Huy, My, and Chi's love triangle and their fight for love and friendship.

Phụng falls in love with the blind craftsman Hai Cảnh working for her family’s pottery business and marries him. But when she receives her infertility diagnosis, Phụng decides to find another woman who can bear his children.

Produced by the Luang Prabang Film Festival, "MEKONG 2030" is a collection of short narrative films that envision the future of the Mekong River from five different national and cultural perspectives. Set in the year 2030, they aim to both entertain and inspire audiences to actively protect this critical life source.

A theater troupe reunites in excitement for a new production after having been out of work for a long time, with the performers and their mentor having gone their separate ways to make ends meet. But the bitter fallout from the failed romance between the lead actor and the lead actress—a romance as long ago as her famously beautiful hair—threatens the play's success.

Hai duong trang was produced in 1994 as a dramatic crime romance film. The film comes from a real character - the infamous robber general Bach Hai Duong.

While undertaking secret operations, four undercover agents experience turmoil in their personal relationships.

A man goes on a journey finding the literal Paradise in hope of resurrecting his late wife, only to face with a horrifying truth about the reality he's living in.

in 1994, at that time the mainstream Cai Luong troupe was sought after by the audience, Thanh was then a 10 year old boy working as a fisherman on the river and despite the danger, he managed to hold the altar. Patriarch and then were adopted by the theater troupe Mr. Bau by the troupe. Kieu Truc Linh, a pretty 9-year-old girl, is the daughter of the famous singer Kieu Truc Le. In order to save her child, Truc Le sacrificed herself... Ten years later, the lack of customers persisted even though the group's owner used every possible means, from an orthodox Cai Luong troupe, it has now become a vaudeville troupe with a circus and lottery. In music, in opera and opera, there are only excerpts and the relationship between the new and the ancient. THIS MOVIE PLOT IS GODDAM LONG SO I SUMMARIZE IT

A film adaptation of the legend of Princess My Chau

A Vietnamese filmmaker contemplates ways to surpass new regulations that prohibit scenes of smoking cigarettes. Meanwhile, his best friend tries to quit smoking. A tale of tender brotherhood against baffling ironies of life that keep those cigs burning.

Businessman Lucky Loc has finally gained a respectable position in society. However, his winning streak comes to a sudden halt when he pays with "funny money" to an unsuspecting salesgirl, Quyen. Believing it to be his lucky charm, he's convinced giving away the bill caused his misfortune. At the same time, Quyen's fortune plummets and she blames the cursed "funny money" for it. When Lucky tries to retrieve the bill and Queyen holds it for ransom, Lucky must do his best to survive this increasingly materialistic world, while keeping his soul and sanity intact.

The Government of the Republic of Vietnam is subjected to military attacks and protests everywhere. Law 10-59 is enacted. Luan is sent to the United States for further military course training. Upon his return in early 1961, Ngo Dinh Diem decides to make him the governor of Kien Hoa province (Ben Tre today) to conduct the Pacification Program, with special privileges at his disposal.

Northern Vietnam early 1970s, yearning for their mother, Lộc and Tiên flee the evacuated area to return to Hanoi, in search of a family reunion.

The film opens with the death of a mother. Although her heartbeat stops, her consciousness continues worrying about her son and blessing him. Her neighbour digs a grave near the house in the field for her, but the son insists on cremation. Because he does not receive much in the way of inheritance, he must be careful budgeting the funeral. Another man is killed by an accident at a construction site. His wife suddenly becomes widowed, but decides to go to her husband’s hometown to bury him and comfort his soul. His relatives, however, doubt her sincerity, as she is still young and beautiful.

Before her memory disorder develops, a Vietnamese grandmother maps out her life in a memoir.

In hopes of getting her family out of poverty, 17-year-old Mai follows a neighbour's offer and leaves her small fishing village in Central Vietnam to work as a seamstress in Saigon, not knowing her neighbour had sold her into prostitution, and a grisly fate awaits her upon arrival.

She thought she had overthrown the patron Hac Ho and broken the sinister plot of Anh Hai, Sister Thirteen and An Cu Nghia Doan, were able to bring peace. However, new enemies continued to appear, once again shaking the lives of the An Cu Nghia Doan brothers.

An ex-fighter pilot renounces life and becomes a monk to seek salvation after the tragic death of his wife upon giving birth to a malformed fetus, which he blames on his mysterious illness. One day, a friend in combat visits him and sheds light on his miseries.

a haiku films, a poem by Nha Thuyen

Virus hysteria tells the story of a film crew filming a zombie-themed work at a mountain resort. Here, the whole crew had a real zombie accident, not a movie image anymore. The main source is due to the toxic, unknown foods widely sold in the market that have poisoned people. The zombie crew struggled to survive and made their way to the airport to seek help from the government and military.