Discoveries from Vietnam World Cinema

As the new government takes over South Vietnam following the Fall of Saigon, civil engineer Dương Tấn is fearful of imminent repression. He and his colleagues are dispatched to fix a hydroelectric plant where they meet Đỗ Long, a bubbly engineer from the North.

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.

March to the Front depicts the Resistance War Against America (Vietnam War) through the lens of romance.

Muối – a girl who lost her mother at birth and was raised with her father's love on the island commune of Thiềng Liềng. The turning point for the father and daughter begins when Muối grows up and decides to move to the city to study and work, dreaming of changing her life to help her father.

Three young people – My Lan, Thien Tam and Khuong Duy – encounter strange, mysterious, and frightening things happening around them.

A boy wants to smell like a flower.

At which distance should one record a city, landscape and people? From the eyes of Bùi Đình Hạc and Nguyễn Đăng Bẩy, Hanoi is a promise: a Hanoi after the event of Điện Biên Phủ. Under the “sky of freedom”, to cite the commentary, panoramas of the capital’s renown landmarks unfold like a series of postcards. A harmonious world where nature and heritage of then and now coexist. In long shots, at a small scale, people can be seen dressing neatly, working and playing with delight. Hope is an obvious choice. A sense of future glimmers amidst vast expanses of open space.

After the mysterious death of his father inside their newly built house, Nguyễn Văn Ân lives with his mentally deteriorating mother as a series of unsettling supernatural events begin to unfold. In an attempt to uncover the truth, Ân starts documenting everything through a vlog series titled Spiritual Stories in My House (Chuyện tâm linh trong nhà mình). During his investigation, he discovers an ancient talisman buried beneath the foundation and gradually realizes that the house is connected to a Lu Ban curse ritual passed down among construction workers — tied to a rumor that after nine ordinary houses, a mysterious “tenth house” is chosen for a dark purpose never meant to be revealed.

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?

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.

The film documents the construction process of the Bac Hung Hai irrigation system to bring Red River water to the provinces of Bac Ninh , Hung Yen and Hai Duong . This is the construction event of the first major irrigation project in Northern Vietnam after peace was restored in 1954. The film highlights human labor and the ability to improve nature.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. A boy sits in a run down hotel. A girl rides a motorcycle through the darkness. This is their story.

After his father is murdered by a ruthless villain, An (Thuận Nguyễn) is gradually pulled into the violent underworld of warring gangs. Alone, An must face life-threatening dangers on his own.

In the middle of a summer afternoon on the outskirts of the city, a mother had a reunion with her son's family after many days of separation. But that reunion did not last long when the son's family decided to leave early, leaving his mother with the promise to return as soon as possible. The mother believed in the promise and continued living day after day.

Undercover journalists pose as prostitutes as a means to report on and destroy a hidden prostitution business.

A young girl saves a pig's life and incidentally changes her own.

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The film is about a family of fishermen. The father, lost in passion, devoted himself to finding treasures in a ship wrecked at sea, who inadvertently deprived the happiness and the lives of his children.

In 1993, a ballet dancer, whose marriage is suffering from the recent death of her daughter and financial difficulties, leaves for Russia with her friends to find work to support her husband as well as artistic passion.

The story in the film is about the love between a man and a woman from the same village, Hoan and Can, who have two children together. But this love affair encountered many difficulties and pressure from family and social customs, forcing Can to leave his hometown and go to the mountains. As for Hoan, she was also prevented by her husband's family because they were afraid of having to redistribute their land. The film shows viewers the relationships and behaviors of Northern farmers in the context of the 1960s.

TAM VU, a retired photographer, clings himself onto a rundown pho joint where he believes that the essence of his deceased wife would still remain with him, as long as the shop is open. This ultimately puts a strain onto his relationship with his son LAM, the only bridge that connects him to reality.

Three young people – My Lan, Thien Tam and Khuong Duy – encounter strange, mysterious, and frightening things happening around them.

The father and mother of a little boy are both motorcycle cab drivers. The boy is often left alone in the single room that is their home. Produced by Ateliers Varan Vietnam.

Two brothers help a triad boss to smuggle illegal goods in exchange for their film fund. However, they soon discover that they have fallen into a trap set by the triad.

Following the brilliant success of the National Concert – Homeland In My Heart held on August 10th at My Dinh National Stadium, along with the anticipation and requests from the large public, Nhan Dan Newspaper decided to bring Homeland In My Heart: The Concert Film. This film not only recreates a historical cultural and artistic event but is also a way to deeply spread love for the Fatherland and national pride.

The film begins with an assassination attempt at the private clinic of psychologist Tran Ngoc Tam. A criminal investigator named Sang is assigned to the case to investigate and delve deeper into criminal psychology. During the process, another murder occurs: the death of Dr. Tam's secretary. Through Tam’s cooperation, Sang uncovers a drug trafficking and manufacturing ring. Assisting Sang in this special task force are Long, a scout from the anti-narcotics unit, and a cabaret dancer named Hang Nga

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.

An amazing theatre performance of animals, and how to behave in an audience.

Bùi Thạc Chuyên travels around rural northern Vietnam to research about classical xẩm singing and its last surviving performer Hà Thị Cầu.

A couple takes shelter from the rain in a public reading room called Thư Viên, but one of them suddenly vanishes .

The Red Gloves is a journey to find herself of the assassin code-named No. 7. She was trained to be a assassin, that was until she returned to Vietnam where she learned the value of life. The return inevitably turned her from an evil spirit into an honest one.

The story of the resistance of the people of the Vinh Linh area of Vietnam which was heavily bombed by the United States during the Vietnamese War. (Note: The film crew itself was bombed; three crew members passed away and chief cameraman was heavily injured. The director re-shot the destroyed film albeit in shortened form.)

A young girl saves a pig's life and incidentally changes her own.

Following the brilliant success of the National Concert – Homeland In My Heart held on August 10th at My Dinh National Stadium, along with the anticipation and requests from the large public, Nhan Dan Newspaper decided to bring Homeland In My Heart: The Concert Film. This film not only recreates a historical cultural and artistic event but is also a way to deeply spread love for the Fatherland and national pride.

After the liberation of the South, Cong volunteers to work at a pepper farm on the island. The members of the farm are elements with a rogue past, led by Dinh, who always disturb the peace and order on the farm.

A man wakes up to find himself locked in a strange room where he can watch videos of his life. After receiving a mysterious call, he is left with the choice of finding the truth or forgetting everything.

When beauty becomes an obsession, Thanh takes a job at a remote cosmetic clinic to save her comatose lover. But the place soon turns into a nightmare, filled with dark rituals, wandering spirits, and a horrifying secret hidden beneath its glamorous facade. Drawn into the sinister “spirit binding” ritual, Thanh must face a life-or-death choice: remain in the underworld with the one she loves, or fight to escape the grip of a malevolent force.

Khánh, a young university assistant, has a passionate one-night stand with a charming student named Báo. Their brief connection seems fleeting—until Báo announces his upcoming wedding and invites Khánh to meet the family. To Khánh’s shock, Báo’s fiancée turns out to be his own sister, making Báo his future brother-in-law. Caught between forbidden desire and familial duty, Khánh must navigate a tangled web of emotions, guilt, and unspoken truths in this intimate and provocative Vietnamese BL mini-series.

In 1960s South Vietnam, an eight-year-old boy finds refuge in his family's cinema, drawing hope from the films he watches as he comes of age amid a divisive war.

The conflict between a group of workers and the manager as they struggle to maximize the production in a cement factory in the 60s

As the Americans embark on a total mission to extinguish the rebels at Củ Chi, one of their South Vietnamese officer starts to reflect on his role in the imminent bloodshed.

A modern tale of Kafka in Vietnam – a country in the middle of a transformation. The film feels like a piece of cultural news with daily events: a wedding, traffic congestion, a robbery, a mystical metamorphosis and a love story.

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%.

Thị Trấn explores a surreal and disorienting world where everyone in a small town is the same person. The first segment depicts a man who grabs a miniature version of himself from his television and places him onto a record player, where the tiny figure plays a guitar. In another scene, the same man cuts roses in a greenhouse, after cutting a couple of roses, he severs the head of a tiny version of himself. After that, a strange television segment adds to the confusion. In the last segment of the film, the man is lifted by a giant hand and placed at a table to share a fancy dinner with none other than himself, their waiter is also himself, and the meal is also a miniature version of himself.

Endearing Madame Phung and her transvestite singers travel around Vietnam, sparking fascination and hostility from the local people.

An old man, while walking at an ancient temple dedicated to Confucius, recalls his love affair with a married woman when he was young. At that time he was also married, so the two had to part and leave a memory of a pair of canaries.