Discoveries from Vietnam World Cinema

After a chance encounter during a ride-hailing motorbike ride, young musician Vinh Tam and female driver Giang Thanh decided to spend a day exploring Saigon together.

In a time of chaos and conflicts, a talented musician falls in love with an upper-class royal mandarin.

“Tan” is a shortfilm written & directed by La Zung, inspired by the people and the events surrounding him. The story is about an unnamed relationship.

The film explores the ways in which material contains memory and holds potential for transformation, reincarnation, and healing. It is inspired by the people of Quang Tri, on the North Central Coast of Vietnam, one of the most heavily bombed areas in the history of modern warfare. The story centers around a woman named Nguyet and her mother, who run a small junkyard on the outskirts of Quang Tri, and Nguyet's cousin Lai. Nguyet earns her living by scavenging and selling pieces of UXO (unexploded ordnances). She also compulsively crafts hanging mobiles from the remnants of the UXO. By chance, she discovers she that these sculptures, which are drawn from her own imagination, hold a remarkable resemblance to the works of Alexander Calder. She embarks on a journey to uncover the source of this uncanny likeness. [Overview courtesy of James Cohan Gallery]

A magical encounter leaves a young woman with a dog that must help her romance a pop star in order to transform back into a human.

This is a story about Hieu - a youngster who belongs to the 9x generation in Vietnam today. With the pressure of not being understood and the incapability to share with his family, Hieu tries to get away from them, lives on his own, and seeks enjoyment from friendships and other social encounters to fulfill his life with... This is his way of showing that he has changed and grown up.

Do you know? Water constitutes 2/3 of the human body. Newborn baby – approximately 77%. Grown-up man – approximately 65%. Grown-up woman – approximately 68%. The elderly – approximately 50%.

Vietnamese guerrillas move into a village adjoining a French/US airstrip and recruit locals to help them bring it down.

Two North Vietnamese soldiers are assigned to guard the entry gate at the 17th parallel demilitarised zone, and quickly acquaint themselves with the other side’s chief guard.

The two villagers are in a deep dispute which stops all villagers loving people from the other. Couples of two village died for love and they claimed war to each other lots of time. But a regular situation happened when French came, they went invading those remote villages and made people work for them. A girl had been raped and murdered by a French leader, so will two villages come to co-operation? Or they will fight a lone to thư enemy, the most dangerous enemy they have met in their lives?

A bankrupt director in need of money to make a dream movie is trying to find her Alzheimer's mother who has just disappeared after promising to sell a house and divide her assets.

In 1954, Thanh, an architect, returns to live in the family house he resided in before the war. He suggests that Quy, a comrade from his regiment and his wife, Hue, share the villa which is too big for just him.

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

After sacrificing everything to finish his film, a young filmmaker faces the ultimate humiliation when no one shows up to the premiere, forcing him and his assistant director to scramble for one last shot at redemption.

Short documentary about Chương Dương Forest Park - Red River Embankment - Directed by Trần Phương Thảo

In the middle of a landscape on the brink of extinction, a couple of mom and son trek into a native cave in order to recount their lifetime memories together. This personal portrait cuts deep into the vulnerable present moments of an ex-colonized nation which is transiting into the digital age. Told in the first-person perspective camera, this film also explores a new possibility of storytelling.

Relationships within a family of illegal loggers gone turbulent when the son starts an affair with his father's lover.

At a Cham village where traditional pottery making is only passed down to women, a man ventures to learn the craft to save it from fading into obscurity.

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.

K was an elite inspector, until an accident that caused the death of a female colleague. His reputation started going downhill and he was haunted by her death. Just days after a major homicide of an entertainer rocked the town, a suspect was apprehended. K realized that there were still so many mysteries surrounding the little town.

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?

The sacrifice of a mother to protect the soldiers of Liberation Army of South Vietnam during the war against US imperialism

A narcissist loses himself in an endless labyrinth, where an exit seems never to have existed. His story is told through the voice of a ventriloquist’s puppet that slowly takes on his face and soul, as his heart and mind are quietly torn apart by the rot within.

A documentary film about the 13th-anniversary music event of singer-artist Hoàng Thùy Linh. The film offers audiences an intimate look into the artist's creative process, training journey, and behind-the-scenes moments of the Vietnamese Concert Film: Chúng ta là người Việt Nam. Behind the explosive performances and flawless on-stage visuals lies the relentless effort of the entire team.

This critically acclaimed Vietnamese documentary portrays the claustrophobic struggles against COVID-19, led by a group of doctors and nurses, in an effort to save the lives of COVID infected pregnant women. Produced by national news channel VTV, "Ranh Giới", meaning "borderline", refers to the line between life and death.

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.

Tân, a Vietnamese student in Paris, has tuberculosis. He is hospitalized in a university sanatorium in the Parisian suburbs. Far from his family, who can no longer support him because of the First Indochina War, he continues to work nightshifts as a musician in restaurants and cabarets. His Vietnamese friends don't realize that he lives in abject poverty, in a world apart.

The film depicts interconnected lives of various characters in South Vietnam in and after the war: a young girl (Mai) who lost her father (Hau)- a Viet Cong cadre; a woman (Nam) whose deceased husband is a South Vietnamese soldier has feelings for Hau and is trying to protect his daughter; a depressive man (Luong) who used to fight with Nam's husband has strong resentment towards his old army.

Once a year, Liem, a young man from an ethnic minority in Vietnam, leaves his ordinary life behind and retreats to the jungle with his friends. During his "time out," he tries to maintain an ancient tradition that is threatening to disappear, as is the forest it takes place in.

A rich man convinces his girlfriend to get an abortion which she angrily rejects. The man is later hit by vehicle; at home in recovery, he enters a delirious state where he sees every man around him getting pregnant.

The life of two soldiers after war, who try to continue their studies at the university.

Trịnh Công Sơn's youth, as a young romantic on his way to become one of the greatest songwriters about love and sorrow. Originally set to be a paired release alongside "Em and Trinh."

A Hundred Years of Happiness; an observational documentary, is a personal portraiture of a Vietnamese farming family and their daughter Tram. While her father instils in her the importance of familial obligation to care for one’s ageing parents, her mother desires a secure future devoid of economic hardship. Determined to fulfil both her parent’s wishes, Tram pursues a new life in South Korea as a migrant bride, but her fast-tracked journey leaves little time for reflection.

A young doctor gets a new job in a haunted hospital where he meets a beautiful nurse, together they uncover the hospitals secrets. A horror comedy about a young doctor taking a new post, only to learn that the patients who passed away there may not have left after all. This place frequented by ghosts, as if they were just like living people, is Ghost Hospital.

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.

Two brothers are separated by communism and a sister, a former imperial concubine turned Buddhist nun

A scooter cab driver goes through a night of unexpected events that may cost him his life when his past catches up with him.

Hai Cũ, a notorious outlaw robbing from the rich to give to the poor, writes to Hồ Chí Minh hoping to secure pardon for his subordinates and is then sent to work as a foreman for a military company. The company's officer turns out to be the student who has accidentally helped him to escape the police many years ago.

A short film for children with congenital heart disease.

The battle for political power in the Trịnh clan continues after the death of Lord Trịnh Sâm in this sequel of "Night of Long Tri." The rivals are two famous concubines of Trịnh Sâm: Dương Thị Ngọc Hoan and Đặng Thị Huệ.

Trùm Sò is a satirical period comedy set in the remote Jellyfish Village, where poverty is widespread—except for one man. Trùm Sò is absurdly rich yet notoriously stingy, obsessed with money to the point of denying himself even the simplest pleasures. His tightly controlled world collapses when a large amount of his gold suddenly disappears. Driven by greed rather than reason, he is pulled into a chaotic heist alongside two unlikely allies: Thị Hến, a sharp-witted widow, and Tôm Hùm, a flamboyant drifter.

Thu lives in a village near the river with Lan, her single mother working as a fruit seller. Thu befriends a boy in the village, Đăng, who lost his mother at a young age and is thus mainly raised by his grandparents. As the two children bond, they find in each other the parental figures they have been longing for.

Following the success of two feature films adapted from Nguyễn Nhật Ánh's renowned works, another standout masterpiece by Vietnam's most celebrated modern author is set to hit the big screen: Kính Vạn Hoa. Helming this blockbuster project is none other than the "hundred-billion director" Võ Thanh Hòa.

Quiet Night is an old Vietnamese film produced in 1984 by director Tran Phuong with the participation of actors People's Artist Nhu Quynh, Bui Bai Binh, and Tran Phuong

A boy wants to smell like a flower.