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- DirectorAnh Hung TranStarsNu Yên-Khê TranMan San LuThi Loc TruongA Vietnamese servant girl, Mui, observes lives within two different Saigon families: the first, a woman textile seller with three boys and a frequently absent husband; the second, a handsome young pianist with his fiancée.
- DirectorVictor VuStarsThinh VinhKhang TrongLam Thanh MySet in the countryside village of Vietnam, Yellow Flowers on the Green grass is a touching tale of innocent love, friendships and brotherhood.
- DirectorMinh Nguyen-VoStarsThe Lu LeThi Kieu Trinh NguyenHuu Thanh NguyenSet along the southern coast of Vietnam during the French occupation in the 1940s, water is everywhere, giving life and bringing decay and rot. Kim is 15; his father and step-mother have two buffalo, their lifeline as subsistence rice farmers. During the rainy season, there's no grass and the buffalo are starving. Kim volunteers to take the beasts inland to find food. On this coming-of-age journey, Kim sees men mistreat women, men fight with men, and French taxes rob the poor. He works for Lap, a buffalo herder whose past is entangled with Kim's parents, and he makes friends who will lead him to his place in the world.
- DirectorLuu HuynhStarsThien Tu TranTruong Ngoc AnhKhanh Quoc NguyenWartime epic involving a poverty-stricken family who struggle to make ends meet, and the mother who does the unthinkable to provide her daughters with the traditional silk dresses required to attend school.
- DirectorTae-kyeong KimStarsJo AnSo-hee HongHong-Anh"Muoi" charts the path of a Korean writer who travels to Vietnam in search of stories for her second novel. There she learns about a mystery centered around a century-old vengeful spirit.
- DirectorKay NguyenBuu Loc TranStarsNinh Duong Lan NgocHong VanVeronica NgoThe re-enactment of the traditional dress (ao dai) era in 1960s, Saigon, thought to be the heyday of traditional Vietnamese costumes. Interwoven into that transformation in fashion and style of the ao dai in modern times which told through the story of the character named Miss Ba (Cô Ba). Audiences will also see somewhere the image of the 60s, 70s full of honest women. An image of Saigon in the past, gentle and steeped in contrast to the rush of a dynamic city will be described by fashion, namely the traditional dress in Vietnam. All of them are cleverly nested in the story between two families, between mothers and daughters, between a tailor and a fabric shop filled with dramatic rage.
- DirectorAnh Hung TranStarsLe Van LocTony Leung Chiu-waiNu Yên-Khê TranWhen a poor bicycle-taxi driver has his cyclo stolen, he is forced into a life of crime. Meanwhile, his sister becomes a sex worker.
- DirectorAnh Hung TranStarsNu Yên-Khê TranQuynh NhuKhanh LeWith the brilliant Vietnamese summer as a setting Vertical Ray of the Sun is beautiful from beginning to end. The plot centres around three sisters, two of whom are happily married (or so it appears). The youngest sister is single and living with her cute older brother, whom she is desperately in love with. A second sister is married to a man who has another woman and child elsewhere whom he loves just as much as his wife -with a few conditions, she agrees to carry on with the marriage. The third sister and her husband are overjoyed to discover she is pregnant, and though he is tempted, her husband remains loyal to her. Charming, slow-paced, face value, family saga film.
- DirectorVan Thuy Tran
- DirectorVan Thuy TranA Vietnamese documentary on human suffering and the meaning of kindness.
- DirectorDang Nhat MinhStarsDuong Dinh ChauMinh ChauLe Dung NhiA woman reporter named Lien interviews a former wartime prostitute from South Vietnam named Nguyet, now a patient in a hospital, about her brief sheltering of an injured Vietcong leader during the war.
- DirectorKhac Loi NguyenStarsAnh Thang DoanHoang DungCuc HoangA Vietnamese General retires and has difficulty adjusting to civilian life with his extended family. His wife is senile and thinks that the war is still on. His conniving bossy daughter-in-law, Thuy, runs the house, entertains her poet lover, and makes extra money breeding dogs feed on ground-up placentas she steals from the clinic where she works. His thieving lower class half-brother tries to raise money for his pregnant daughter's wedding. The servants, saved from the streets, are sent back to their village against their will, because the General thought that the revolution he fought for was supposed to herald a classless society.
- DirectorDang Nhat MinhStarsBài Bình BùiLan Huong NguyenThu Thuy PhamA middle-aged man whose emotional and mental development ended at adolescence becomes obsessed with a guava tree in the yard of his former childhood home. When he is arrested trying sneak into the yard, he forms a unique relationship with the daughter of the home's current resident.
- DirectorTony BuiStarsNgoc Hiep NguyenNgoc MinhPhat Trieu HoangAlthough the hearts and goals and desires are different for everyone in a culturally-shifting Ho Chi Minh City, the stories of four separate individuals paint a vivid picture of the past, present, and future of a city eking into a new era.
- DirectorVan Thuy TranStarsRoy Mike BoehmThe Sound of the Violin in My Lai is a short film that examines the history and legacy of the My Lai massacre, an incident of the Vietnam War in which hundreds of Vietnamese civilians were massacred by U.S. Army soldiers. The film investigates the effects of the massacre, with the story centering on the return of American soldiers Hugh Thompson and Larry Colburn to My Lai on the 30th anniversary of the event.
- DirectorNguyen Thanh VanStarsDuong DonHong-AnhHoa MaiFor twenty years, Canh has lived in North Vietnam, unable to return to his home in the south where his wife is waiting for him. She is happy to reunite with her husband until she learns that he has married a young woman in the north and has a child by her. The love triangle becomes more complicated.
- DirectorBui Thac ChuyênStarsHâu Nguyen DuyHung Nguyen ThanhToàn Truong ThiBan is from the countryside. Exhausted, he finishes his first day as a rickshaw driver in Hanoi. A man offers him a lot of money for a trip at night in the city where the streets transform into a labyrinth.
- DirectorJean-Jacques AnnaudStarsJane MarchTony Ka Fai LeungJeanne MoreauIn 1929 French Indochina, a French teenage girl embarks on a reckless and forbidden romance with a wealthy, older Chinese man, each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other.
- DirectorRégis WargnierStarsCatherine DeneuveVincent PerezLinh-Dan PhamEliane adopts Camille, whose Vietnamese parents were friends. In 1930, a French navy officer is interested in Eliane (owns 60km2 plantation) and later in Camille. There's an uprising in Vietnam against French colonial power.
- DirectorHoang LeStarsVu AnhThu MinhLe Huynh My DuyenThe film is a story about the process of investigating and writing articles by a young female journalist about the world of disco. Following her, the status of a dancing girl was gradually revealed. That is Hoa, a rich daughter, less than 18 years old but still alive, leaving home because her parents don't care, and then becoming a dancing girl when she is not good. That is Ngoc, a stubborn girl who defies her life but is actually a loving, meaningful person. That is Hanh, a connoisseur girl, with a fiery body but with a pitiful fate in life, love, always yearning for a home for herself.
- DirectorHoang LeStarsQuang DungThu MinhLe Huynh My DuyenStreet Cinderella is a triangle love story between singer Khang Dung (singer Quang Dung) and Hanh (actor Minh Thu) and Hoa, a call girl (My Duyen).
- DirectorHoang LeStarsMinh AnhLang BangTruong LamTwo poor sisters met a young owner of fancy restaurant. The younger sister fall in love with the young owner, even though the two sisters decided to kidnap him for ransom.
- DirectorDerek NguyenStarsNhung KateJean-Michel RichaudKim XuanWhen an orphaned Vietnamese girl is hired to be a housemaid at a haunted rubber plantation in 1953 French Indochina, she unexpectedly falls in love with the French landowner and awakens the vengeful ghost of his dead wife... who is out for blood.
- DirectorDuki DrorStarsVaan NguyenHoiami Nguyen never imagined that he will end up so far from his home village of Bong Son in central Vietnam. Political circumstances and the roulette of life have washed him to the shores of Israel. The penniless Vietnamese refugee became a father of 5 Hebrew speaking Israeli daughters. His daughter - Vaan, describes her parents' ordeal using a razor sharp language in her blog. She feels trapped in circles of identity which will never meet. Caught between her wild and stormy Israeli spirit and the expectations to be modest and obedient Vietnamese at home, there is unbridgeable abyss. When her father returns to his family in Vietnam, Van finds herself absorbed into his tragic story - a cruel tale of loss and survival. Hoimai's dream of return sends Vaan to look for a brighter future in the new-old country. She joins him in trying to reclaim the lands of the family, in the remote village at the heart of the Vietnamese jungle.
- StarsJoseph B. AndersonAnthony AstuccioGeorge R. ChristmasA comprehensive history of the American stage of the Vietnam War.