Overview of articles
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Tro’ Vé
Highly praised film by one of Vietnam’s most important directors about Loan (who is in love with her colleague’s brother) who meets an old schoolfrienPublished on: -
Hong Vong Phu
Film based on old Vietnamese legend about a fisherman who discovers a terrible truth. By the director of GREEN PAPAYA and CYCLO.Published on: -
Le Couteau
Young, Catholic girl from the South wants to avenge her grandmother’s murder in the war. Winner of many Vietnamese Oscars. Based on long-banned storyPublished on: -
Nostalgia for Countryland
Tragi-poetic story about a boy who has to maintain his family. Then a cousin returns from overseas to a very different world…Published on: -
Xích Lô
Visually stunning and very alarming portrait of a rickshaw driver in Saigon who is confronted with crime and prostitution. Received a Golden Lion in VPublished on: -
Bride of Silence
In a legendary Vietnam before the war, before the colonial era, yes, basically before everything, the tragic story is told of a young unmarried motherPublished on: -
A Time Far Past
Film version of a famous novel about 1950s Vietnam made with much feeling for the period. We follow the young Sai who, at the age…Published on: -
Buffalo Boy
A Vietnamese water-buffalo drama (no, that isn’t a genre, yet) with the power of a western. A young man has to combat wild and watery…Published on: -
Big in Vietnam
Diop, who won a Tiger Award in 2010 with her short Atlantiques, has two new films including this mysterious tale of a director who gets…Published on: -
Je vis dans le rêve de ma mère
The film is the dream of the real mother of the maker, about a young dark filmmaker who travels through many European and Asian countries…Published on: