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- DirectorOthello KhanhStarsDustin NguyenTruong Ngoc AnhJohnny Tri NguyenSaigon Eclipse is inspired by the "Story of Kieu", the classic Vietnamese epic poem written by Nguyen Du in the early 19th century. Our story revisits and updates the poem's principal themes of filial devotion, redemption and woman's submission; themes structuring Asian feudal society. The principal characters were retained and reinterpreted. Kieu, a beautiful and talented actress, is making a film with Kim, a hot young director from L.A. who has come back to Vietnam to become a part of the new wave of Vietnamese film culture. The film is being produced by Kieu's Uncle Henry and her mother Ba Tu. It is a seemingly wonderful situation until the fragile family balance is disrupted when Kieu falls in love with her director Kim and Uncle Henry loses all at the gambling tables. To add to this, Vanessa, a foreign beauty, is hired to be Kieu's stand in and heads begin to turn in her direction more than they should. Vanessa becomes Kieu's best friend. Uncle Henry embraces dishonest ways to pay off his debts and the story plunges into the murky realm of human trafficking. Even Kieu's filial devotion and sacrifice cannot keep the family together. In the middle of a continually changing set of circumstances, where truth and lies are one and allies become enemies, people begin to disappear. Kim tries to find the secrets that are destroying his movie, and taken his new love from him. Vanessa, in her innocent way, becomes his ally, and they fall headlong into the center of the intrigue. After all seems lost, can strangers be expected to know how to deal with illusion and trickery? Is there any way that Kim and Vanessa can come to terms with the truth, once it is revealed? And most of all how can Kieu, who has fallen deep into the evil world of human trade, will come back and be a part of a world of light and happiness?
- DirectorAmitabh KlemmStarsPaul DichterKat TuohyMac BrandtAbout a protective but misguided young man who, feeling that the object of affection is in danger, takes matters into his own hands.
- DirectorAdil El ArbiBilall FallahStarsWill SmithMartin LawrenceVanessa HudgensMiami detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett must face off against a mother-and-son pair of drug lords who wreak vengeful havoc on their city.
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- DirectorDang Nhat MinhStarsThu Hien NguyenLuc TranIn the years following the American war, a young woman from Hanoi teaches in a rural school in the south. There she meets a troubled young man, and they have a brief romance that she recalls wistfully years later in her unhappy marriage.
- DirectorRingo LeStarsVeronica NgoVi Van HuaThi Kim Xuan ChauIn modern day Vietnam, a young man finds freedom through the music of a girl whom he is forbidden to fall in love with.
- DirectorQuang Minh HôStarsPhuong Dung HoThi Huyen NguyenVan Minh NguyenBased on the novel of the same name by Le Lu, first published 18 years ago, Viet Kieu (overseas Vietnamese) Ho Quang Minh's film is an ambitious re-telling of the first part of Le's novel spanning from the wars for independence to the Communist era. In this portion, a man named Giang Minh Sai (The Quan) is forced to marry Tuyet (Ho Phuong Dung) at the age of ten and leaves his home by the river wharf to live with an old man named Kien. As the war against France accelerates, Sai enlists to fight and falls in love with another woman named Huong. While the affair is fated not to last, Tuyet struggles to keep her marriage together.
- DirectorCuong NgoStarsTruong Ngoc AnhKieu ChinhKris DuangphungSeven stories about Vietnamese women spanning different generations, exploring their inner lives and forbidden loves.
- DirectorKhoa Trong NguyenA young dentist's world turns upside down when a famous Vietnamese TV actress enters his dental office.
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- 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.
- DirectorBá Son DàoStarsKim Anh NhatQuach Ngoc NgoanLuc TranWar tears apart the life of a beautiful musically gifted girl and a fateful encounter brings tragedy. The biggest historical Vietnamese film on tragic love ever made.
- DirectorAndy DeJohnStarsNguyen Ngoc Trang VyNguyen Hoang Thien KimHoang Tran Minh DucIn the Vietnamese countryside, a young girl must learn to take care of her ailing family.
- DirectorMinh Phuong DoanThanh Nghia DoanStarsTruong Ngoc AnhNguyen manh ThangTruong huu QuyA 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.
- DirectorIan GamazonStarsLong NguyenQuynn TonA pregnant woman kidnaps a man who has done her wrong and makes him confess to his sins. From the director of Cavite (Independent Spirit Award winner) starring Long Nguyen (Journey from the Fall, Heaven and Earth) and Quynn Ton comes a movie about a bow, a wheelchair and a fireplace.
- DirectorBui Thac ChuyênStarsMy Uyen Dang TranNgoc Phuong MaiHanh Thuy Ngo PhamTai, a soldier in South Vietnam, had 2 wives living in 2 different places. When the war ended in 1975, he brought his second wife and her child to a new land which was littered with land mines and bombs leftover from the war. As a loser, he had no choice. He built a small house for himself. He worked extremely hard to earn money. One day, while having a drink with a Cong San named Nam Duc, he found out another way to earn his living. Nam Duc was a good mine clearer and he collected barbwire in the minefields in exchange for alcohol. Tai was taught how to earn money in that way by Nam Duc. Tai went to the minefield at the risk of his life and cleared land-mines. He collected scraps from the minefield. He had money to bring up his 2 wives and children. However, he understood that scraps would run out one day. He discovered a new way to be paid...He cleared land-mines daily for cultivation land. He dug for land-mines and took them out of land. And he had a simple conclusion: land-mines were only dangerous when they were stepped over. If being taken out, they were like stones
- DirectorLinh VietStarsDuong DonHong-AnhThanh MaiA young family move into an apartment in a modern high-rise building ... what could be more normal? But why is the young wife afraid to leave her toddler alone? What other dark thing could also be living in the apartment building, in the service ducts and elevator shafts where people seldom go?
- DirectorJeff HeltonStarsHaily HeltonBrittany 'McKey' Sullivan
- DirectorLuu HuynhStarsDinh Y NhungHuy KhanhThai HoaIn this dark love triangle that proceeds with the inexorable logic of a Greek tragedy, a dedicated wife in a small Vietnamese fishing village secretly turns to another man when her husband is unable to give her the child they both crave - but the surrogate father's crazed jealousy will have fateful consequences.
- DirectorPham Nhue GiangStarsHong-AnhPhung Hoa Hoai LinhQuoc Thai Truong MinhThu's mother makes a meager living running a Hanoi fruit stand and is deep in debt. Focused on her lousy boyfriend, she neglects Thu, who takes responsibility for the family.
- DirectorLinh VietStarsDuong DonLe Dung NhiTrang MinhA rich man's fiance dies in a car accident.
- DirectorJakeb AnhvuTong Phuoc Phuc operates an orphanage in Nha Trang, central Viet Nam. He persuades expectant mothers from aborting with the promise of care and shelter. Operated as a sort of halfway house, unwed mothers living at the orphanage must care for the many young resident children until giving birth. Tong wishes to leave his mark both as an anti-abortionist and as a saviour to fallen women and their unwanted children. Praised by the country's Prime Minister and the media, Tong's popularity and motives are overshadowed by allegations of profiteering and child neglect. This fly on the wall documentary follows one man's quest and the mothers who care for the orphaned children of Nha Trang.