Discoveries from Vietnam World Cinema

In her sleepless nights, Gia Gia watches online videos and finds out why she is afraid to fall asleep.

A visually provoking short film about one of the most extreme homosexual practices.

In Half Moon, Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode” is paired with footage of the artist’s Vietnamese father walking in an Asian restaurant, the music transforming his nervous march into a hip catwalk stride. Meanwhile, sluggish, eerie electronic beats often accompany angled shots of apartment interiors, accentuating a certain ghostly nature of such spaces. Music haunts, yet this state of being haunted has nothing to do with horror; it is more hypnagogic and ethereal. Amidst the hauntingly disorienting music, the sense of space is as distracting as the temporal experience.

A woman who is up late thinks the shadow made by her coat is nothing, but she is wrong.

Using optically printed news footage taken in mid-April, 1975. Featuring a two-week period where the Vietnamese People's Army and their Viet Cong allies engaged the South Vietnamese Army at Xuan Loc in the last battle of the Vietnam War.

Set in a factory in Asia during an undefined celebration event, Europeans in suits are seen in long wandering shots as they greet one another, shake hands discreetly, and look about themselves expectantly. Further into this ambiguous opening, and propelled by classical Western opera and symphonic orchestrations, Asian workers are observed putting finishing touches of paint and polish onto gleaming surfaces of what will soon be on display in motorbike showrooms. The images and music are sharply punctuated by the abrupt and raw intrusions of live factory sounds that conclude in a jarring visual exclamation, exhuming the verses of an Emily Dickinson poem and laying them out in a contemporary and globalized context.

An ant looking for a job, but he finds every jobs too hard for him.

The cuckoo couple laid eggs in a starling's nest.

First short film after 3 months in college.

Jrai mythologies are woven into a lyrical meditation of life and death, destruction and creation, and everything in-between.

Sharing the same bed with his roommate, a young man begins to have a homoerotic fantasy.

"No Gods, No Masters" quotes the slogan championing independent thought used by anarchists, feminists and workers in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. The video juxtaposes images and sounds recorded at various locations in Vietnam and features two appeals expressed by two supposed ghosts: one is hearable via an audio production by the 6th Psychological Operations Battalion (PSYOP) of the US-Army during America's war in Vietnam, which was intended as a weapon to weaken the fighting morale of the Vietcong, distributed via loudspeakers over their supply routes. The other ghost makes herself heard using Sung Tieu's aunt as her medium.

A mouse learns about bravery.

If a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, would Mr Binh’s community treat him in the same way once they learn the truth about his partner and him?

This is a story about two gay boys trying to convince one's mom to accept and allow them to live as they want.

After having a weird dream of drowning in water, Thanh went to a psychic, who performed spirit medium ritual, to get answers. The psychic gave Thanh a gold Buddha necklace for protection and asked her to come along with him to a temple to pray for blessings. On the way there, Thanh saw a young girl of 10-12 years old, seemingly a ghost haunting her. She also had another dream in which she was a film director and in the film, the psychic was the male lead named Nam and the ghost was the female lead named Trang...

The cowardly detective Henry must confront his greatest fear to solve a high-stakes case. Along the way, he uncovers an even more terrifying truth lurking behind it.