Santa Ana, CA (October 20, 2025) – Viet Film Fest 2025, presented by the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association (VAALA), proudly concludes its 16th edition, celebrating the creativity, diversity, and global reach of Vietnamese cinema. Founded in 2003, Viet Film Fest is the largest international Vietnamese film festival in Read more…
In this exclusive interview, Trịnh Đình Lê Minh, director of Once Upon a Love Story, shares his meditations on homecoming, love, and the temporal and spatial dimensions of the film. He also articulates his strategies for collaborating with the crew, adapting the original novel for the screen, and keeping a balance Read more…
State of Statelessness is an anthology film consisting of four short films made by Tibetan filmmakers living in exile. It is a collective effort of exploring the themes of statelessness and migration embedded within everyday life of the Tibetan diaspora. In this interview, Tenzin Tsetan Choklay (producer and co-director) talks Read more…
In this interview, Thi Dang An Tran, director of Xanh, outlines both her career’s journey from theater to animation filmmaking and her personal experiences as a member of the Vietnamese diaspora in Germany. Drawing inspiration from true events that took place in her father’s restaurant, she explains how animation aesthetics Read more…
Director and writer Mandy Krahn, in this interview, reflects on the personal and cultural roots that shaped her latest short film, Today Is My Day Off (Von 0 auf 180) – a quiet, intimate portrait of a father-daughter relationship and intergenerational understanding, set in motion by the closing of the Read more…
Interviewee: Tuong Vi Nguyen Long, director of Let There Be Work Interviewer: Xiangu Qi Let There Be Work, directed by Tuong Vi Nguyen Long, is a unique documentary that turns its focus towards white-collar work in Vietnam. It documents how the employees of a non-hierarchical, Vietnam-based IT company organize themselves Read more…
In this interview, director Bảo Nguyễn discusses his creative approach to crafting The Stringer, a gripping documentary that balances emotional honesty with fact-seeking rigor. Inspired by journalism films and guided by the idea that cinema is memory, the film explores themes of authorship and accountability. Learn how collaboration with participants Read more…
In this interview, the writer and director of Summer School, 2001 (Letní škola, 2001), Dužan Duong, shares the creative vision behind his debut feature. Inspired by the visual aesthetics of Wong Kar-wai and the elliptical storytelling of Akira Kurosawa’s Rashōmon (1950), the film explores family dynamics, masculinity, and nostalgia through Read more…