Discoveries from Vietnam World Cinema

Biographical film about Ngoc Trinh, a very famous model known as "Queen of the bikini" in Vietnam, played by herself.

A gorgeous young woman endures the wrath of her strict family and fellow villagers when she becomes pregnant out of wedlock and refuses to name the father. 17 years later, her son strives to learn the truth about his birth and the mystery surrounding the disappearance of his long-missing mother.

A Vietnamese-American photographer decides to throw his wedding in Saigon. A day before the wedding, he ends up stranded in a seaside town due to his friends’ prank at the bachelor’s party. Penniless, he reluctantly agrees to be act as a strange woman’s boyfriend in exchange for cash to buy train tickets back to Saigon.

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 father and daughter swap bodies and have to learn to live each other's lives.

In a near future Vietnam where global warming and rising seawater levels have forced cultivation to be done on floating farms, a strong-willed woman has to make a critical decision about her ex-lover, a suspect of her husband's murder.

Truc, a movie director, keeps hearing a lot of bad things about what have happened in a mysterious abandoned house in Da Lat, in which she is interested. Therefore she decides to bring her film crew there to film a horror movie.

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 small family, lacking sufficient financial means, is forced to purchase a house that local residents whisper is haunted by strange supernatural phenomena. How will the family confront a home said to have had many previous owners and a dark, mysterious past?

Trong, a self-proclaimed king of a garbage dump, falls in love with the poor flower seller Thuy.

11 Hopes centers around young athletes with passion for soccer and their journey to pursue it.

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.

The evening stages from Y-Concert by YeaH1, the 10-hour music festival for 55 artists.

The Lake is a supernatural horror film inspired by the urban legend of Stone Lake - a place always shrouded in mysterious stories that young people often tell each other.

Jasmine brings viewers back to Hanoi of the 2010s. It is the life story of a shoe shine boy, a sidewalk barber, an old teacher who teaches singing to a choir of blind students or or a farmer who works as a maid in Hanoi.…. These fragmented lives form a colorful picture of the life of ordinary Hanoians.

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.

Threatened by gangsters, a young man stages a fake funeral for his own mother to claim her insurance money. But his insane, unfilial plan keeps getting sabotaged — by strangers, by friends, and especially because the day he plans to put his mother in the coffin happens to be her 60th birthday.

A man is hosting his best friend for a sleepover. He's been harboring feelings for his friend for years, but tomorrow his friend gets married. He has to grapple with his hidden emotions while helping his friend prepare wedding attire. Unbeknownst to him, the friend also holds a secret of his own.

The film evolves around questions of identity, popular memory and culture. While focusing on aspects of Vietnamese reality as seen through the lives and history of women resistance in Vietnam and in the U.S, it raises questions on the politics of interviewing and documenting.

After a series of misfortunes, a good-natured young man descends into violence and becomes one of the most notorious gangsters in 1970s Saigon.

The young girl chooses a life on social media for the safety she has created for herself. She hates her name Snow White because to her, she is not a princess. She ran into a friend and he gave her a different perspective on how to look at life.

The vibrations adolescence, nostalgia injured ones in the battlefield, the dreaming and wondering aimlessly early ... has created space for a story fairy with her An.

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.

Tư Hậu is a common woman from a fishing village whose husband has gone away to fight in the revolution. She takes care of her young daughter as well as her aging father-in-law. Soon, her peaceful village is attacked.

The Super Naughty Nanny (Hiếu Hiền, Đinh Ngọc Diệp, Dũng Voi, Trương Quỳnh Anh...) is a humorous film released in 2015 by director Lê Bảo Trung, revolving around the troubles a young nanny faces when dealing with mischievous children. In The Super Naughty Nanny, the young nanny, who deeply loves children, decides to become a skilled nanny. However, she soon discovers that the children are not only adorable but also extremely mischievous and prone to causing trouble. Will this young nanny be able to handle the mischievous children, and what other challenges will she face?

A father ropes in his son for exploits using his DIY ‘memory eraser’ van in this sci-fi comedy on their one-night adventure.

A police officer receives a worn-out and traumatised woman who begs him to take actions against a ruthless man that ruined her life, and only gives his moniker, Tín Mã Nàm, meaning “crazy horse” in Cantonese. As the officer sets out to search for Tín Mã Nàm, a network of intricate crimes, espionage and bloody murders beyond his imagination begins to unfold.

Khanh Linh, a fashion magazine editor, is on the verge of losing her job if her next project is not a hit. She finds herself having to work with Son, a successful photographer who she injured in a car accident.

A couple falls in love, but soon gets separated by the jealous patriarch of their Hmong village.

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.

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.

A poor farmer leaves his home to become a miner, hoping to strike it rich in the new gold rush.

After the war ends, Luy returns home and is now assigned as Commune Secretary of his coastal village. However, his wife is now wedded to Son, a soldier of the formerRepublic of Vietnam regime.

Venice travels from Vietnam to Australia on a vacation. Her experiences becomes overwhelming fun and astonishing as she gets to see the different breeds of dogs, the lifestyle of Australia and the fireworks of 2024.

My An has a crush on the good-looking and rich Thien. He is labeled "The Prince of the Dreams" in the school, but in the same time he is cold, eccentric and not interested in his peers. His biggest dream is to become a superstar musician. Due to the circumstances and their fathers friendship they would became housemates.

The story follows Quân, a grieving husband devastated by the sudden death of his wife in a tragic accident. His shattered happiness seems miraculously restored when his wife’s spirit appears to return within the body of a female colleague—the only survivor of the same accident. Like hermit crabs borrowing shells to survive, they cling to borrowed identities in an attempt to escape the pain of their lives. But their fragile happiness begins to unravel when a horrifying secret surrounding his wife’s death comes to light, forcing Quân to choose between clinging to the illusion of comfort or exposing the terrifying truth hidden beneath the shell he has created.

In a quaint village nestled in the West Vietnam, Mr. Sau Seu, a karaoke cafe owner, resides alone, eagerly awaiting his son Ut Tung’s return from Saigon for a visit. However, his hopes are shattered when he discovers he has a grave illness. To fulfill his promise to his late wife, he decides to “marry his son off.” However, this plan takes an unexpected turn when he learns that Tung has a shocking secret and is concealing it. Amidst conflicts, misunderstandings, and attempts at reconciliation, father and son gradually gain a deeper understanding of each other. Ultimately, they find happiness and peace in their own unique marriages.

A Vietnamese action comedy feature film.

The director of a steel refinery comes into conflict with his wife over plans that might affect her father's reputation.

"Lotto" is a story revolving around the life of Le Lieu - the "main peach" of Phu Hoa bingo. Le Lieu is actually a man named Nam. Males grow up and have to get married just like other men. Until one day Nam decided to leave his family to follow the urge in his mind, he came to the bingo group to live with his true self and with his desire even though life was messy, lonely, staggered like a locomotive singing here and there...

An elderly couple from Vinh and their grandchild takes a coach to Viet Tri The passengers face numerous harassments during the journey, but luckily a youth volunteer and a discharged soldier are determined to help them.

Story surrounds a woman who has to work in a massage shop after the police take away all her means of living as a peddler

As they enter the final year in high school, a group of friends encounter a series of personal issues.

The story revolves around 3 main characters. Those are the two sisters and Mrs. Coc. The two children are very active and mischievous. They discover all the things that urban children can do when they go back to the countryside to play and never know about a quiet countryside that still has hidden dangers that need to be avoided. However, to deter them from being foolish, out of control. Mrs. Coc used stories about folk legends to draw valuable lessons for children. However, those stories haunt curious children, are they simply warnings? Or hidden behind it are magical stories of another supernatural world?

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.

In an attempt to break into the Saigon fashion scene, an emerging model becomes the mistress of a famous photographer.