Discoveries from Vietnam World Cinema

A woman volunteers to help the Revolutionaries' trucks hide from bombing raids in Truong Son forests.

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.

An aspiring photographer tries to convince a girl to pose for his "art photos" by pretending to be a director. Ngo Dong (by Ha) dreams of becoming a famous actress. Quang Hy (by Hai) wants to take nude “artistic’ photos. They meet and Quang Hy lies that he’s a director to get Ngo Dong to participate in taking photos. Their relationship begins.

When beauty becomes an obsession. To save her lover, Thanh accepts a job at a remote beauty clinic. However, the living nightmare of macabre rituals, wandering ghosts, and a terrifying secret lays behind the clinic. Drawn into the "Đi Thiếp" ritual, Thanh is forced to make a choice: to remain in the underworld by her lover’s side, or fight to escape the clutches of the dark forces.

After the war, a young man reuniting with his beloved must deal with the fact that she has gone insane.

Paris By Night 98 - Fly With Us to Las Vegas is a Paris By Night program produced by Thúy Nga that was filmed at the Theatre for the Performing Arts in Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino on September 26, 2009 and September 27, 2009 and release DVD from December 10, 2009. The show was hosted by Nguyễn Ngọc Ngạn and Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Duyên.

Returning to Vietnam for the first time since middle school, a teenage girl reunites with old friends for a nostalgic summer road trip to 'Lake Perfect.’ Racing through the countryside and armed with her camera, she attempts to uncover how much of what she left behind remains unchanged, only to discover the past she hoped to reclaim has been invariably altered by oceans of time.

a haiku films, a poem by Nha Thuyen

Long is a single dentist with a monotonous life, toiling away at work day until a fateful encounter with a customer, the beautiful emerging actress Tram. Engrossed with his new crush, Long ends up following Tram into her ongoing production for a film about belly dancing.

Women have a long and storied tradition of fierce warriorship. Vietnamese women fought the French, South Vietnamese Regular Army and American troops in the decades following World War II. In a country of ancient art and religion, of poetry and song, and of resplendent physical beauty, these women suffered the horrors of war as active combatants. Some experienced many life shattering years of torture and imprisonment. Ultimately, all shared in victory in defense of their homes and country. But, as is always the case in war, their victory is not without its contradictions, losses, and sorrows.

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.

The childhood of Ly Thai To, a Vietnamese monarch.

When an unplanned baby enters the lives of a conservative mother, neurodivergent daughter and detached gay son, the trio travels back in time through their diaries and family photos to mend ruptured bonds and prepare for a new cycle of motherhood.

Accident / Tai Nan is an experimental documentary that explores a traumatic accident, the body and language in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Inspired by Tô Hoài’s classic children’s novel “Diary of a Cricket,” the story follows Cricket and friends on a journey through modern-day Hanoi to save Muddy Hamlet—a once lush land now overrun by waste.

Hải Vy, a 12th grade student losing faith in her passion for art, leaves her university choice blank under mounting pressure. In crisis, she falls into The Aching Echo, a surreal world of her own creation, where meeting her younger self rekindles her reason to create.

A city in explosive development. Overcrowded streets of human beings, all on motorbikes, get mixed up into circulation streams, nobody knows neither their source nor their activities.A magma of images reflects, without consistency, all ideals of consumption.In this confusion, a particular destiny could be a daily life of everybody. Such as a common story: a grand-mother is dying, a divorced woman who does not want to take care of her teenager child, an anxious father initiates his son earning his own living, a teenager dreams of a lucky life without having to work, and new rules of transparency in global way of judgments implicate up to private life of a human being, pretending control the quality of his work... Nobody knows what will be happened next?

Phuoc wanders aimlessly and stops at the restaurant ‘White Night’, owned by the Boss. Sharing the space with those who work there, Phuoc learns about the lives of the Boss’s family.

Mai Toan leaves his studies at the Music Academy to join the army. One day, he is assigned to escort Cam - a prisoner back to the rear for extraction.

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.

A documentary film promoting the life and career of Ho Chi Minh on the 100th anniversary of his birth (1890-1990) through a series of interviews with his contemporaries including Phạm Văn Đồng, Võ Nguyên Giáp and Nguyễn Văn Linh. One of the highly acclaimed films about Ho Chi Minh, this is often broadcast by Vietnam Television on the occasion of his birthday (May 19) or death anniversary (September 2).

A Love triangle story full of passion and lust. The love story begins with the appearance of the quartet Minh Tu, Ha Viet Dung, Duc Hai and Vo Thanh Tam. The lightning of love clashes when Minh Tu (Diem Tinh) serendipitously attends a painting exhibition. This fateful meeting opens up a complicated love story when Diem Tinh and Ha Viet Dung (Hung) become a couple. This is when Duc Hai (as Son) has to regret seeing the person he loves hand in hand with someone else. There will always be happy people and sad people, but it is a mysterious why some people are addicted to the pursuit, like the tagline in the movie "Love is like a drug" or Diem Tinh's line "You and you, are like moths. We jump into the light and die.” The appearance of the handsome taxi boy Vo Thanh Tam is also one of the highlights of the film that takes the story to a new direction. Unanticipated tragedies happen when the characters in the film are ready to defy everything to get what they want and hide their secrets.

When Tiên returns to announce her marriage, she fatefully encounters her ex-lover from a decade prior.

"Naughty teenager" is a story about Ha An - a top student in school both academically and physically, but is also called the "stubborn student". One day, Ha An fell into love and found herself pregnant. At that time, she devoted herself to achieving a scholarship to study abroad, which would help her get away with the gossips. Ironically and unfortunately, life rolled her into endless obstacles. Ha An was expelled from the school, turned away by her family and disparaged by her friends, all because of her pregnancy. She was harshly forced to a dead end and had no other choices but commit suicide. However, could the timely presence of Mr. Phong bring Ha An back to life?

Two classmates volunteer to work in logistics across the forests of Trường Sơn mountains.

Paris By Night 131 is the 140th Paris By Night program (including special programs) conducted by Thuy Nga center. This is the 8th spring theme show in the Paris By Night series and the first to be filmed after a long period of unable to do so due to COVID-19. It was also the first show to be performed without an audience in more than 20 years.

When a drunken night yields an unplanned pregnancy, a woman considers raising her baby alone as the father's role hangs in a balance.

At a rural village where most men have perished in the revolutions against French colonisers, their remaining widows and grieving mothers must bear the brunt of rigid patriarchal expectations placed upon them.

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

A boy, abandoned by his family, finds himself struggle to continue his study at school and make a living without stepping in the crime-ridden path of his brother.

Adventures of Quynh and his group of friends, along with a mysterious water buffalo.

A four-channel video installation that continues on from the echoes of French colonial subjects. Senegalese soldiers, or tirailleurs, were among the forces deployed to Indochina to combat the Vietnamese uprising against French rule. During the war and after the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu (when Frantz Fanon declared the beginning of the end of the French Empire), hundreds of Vietnamese women and their children migrated to West Africa with Senegalese husbands who had been stationed in Indochina. Many other soldiers left their wives and took only their children, while still others took mixed or Vietnamese children not their own and raised them in Senegal without connection to their origins.

That summer, we had nothing but youth, dreams, and…each other. But it was also that very summer—a summer carrying the things we hadn't yet completed… Are you ready to meet the version of yourself from those beautiful summer days of youth and continue writing the unfinished story?

After the dangerous offensive launched on the embassy office in Saigon, Tư Chung and his comrades have to find ways to adapt to rising suspicions from the CIA advisors, as well as dealing with violent repercussions involving someone very dear to him. The third part of a series based on a real-life organization involved in intelligence activities in South Vietnam before 1975.

In early 20th century, a Vietnamese aristocratic socialite falls in love with a poor scholar though her father, a powerful governor, is determined to separate them, even with extreme measures.

When a woman and her friends visit her home village to find a location for a client's wedding photoshoot, terror shifts their focus.

Film opens with the question: How to get rid of the obsession of love and death? Mai Anh did not accept the loss of her father was an accident, she became depressed and resorted to Nam's psychological treatment. About Nam, he can not forget his ex-girlfriend who betrayed and left him 3 years ago.

Bus: One-Way Ride is a supernatural horror film set in a school environment. It is the newest cinematic project by director Luk Vân, following When We Are 25 (2023). The film’s concept originates from the idea of mysterious buses that carry wandering spirits who still have unfinished wishes, giving them one final chance to fulfill what they could not accomplish in life.

According to the marriage arrangement of parent, Yen had to get married when she was only 10 years old. Since then, her life closed to the ups and downs of her husband’s family.

The Promise is a Vietnamese BL series about two stepbrothers and their budding romance. The feisty teenage protagonist has a rocky relationship with his older stepsibling. After getting into trouble at school, the main character is surprised when his nemesis shows sympathetic support. Their relationship improves, but they must navigate their vague and uneasy feelings for each other.

A North Vietnam–era documentary attributed to Joris Ivens that compiles graphic evidence of the effects of U.S. weapons—shown across bodies, livestock, farmland, and buildings—using clinical documentation and damage statistics to support its case.

In early 1920s, while studying at the Huế royal citadel, young scholar Nguyễn Tất Thành bears witness to the brutal suppression of Cần Vương insurgents by the Colonial French settlers and the complicity of his royal gentries. He plans himself for a transformative journey that will forge him to be one of the most distinguished revolutionaries - Hồ Chí Minh.

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