Interviewee: Anna Fam-Rieskaniemi, director, Entropy (Entropia) Interviewer: Eric Nong, Viet Film Fest Artistic Director To what extent is Entropy indicative of the tensions you have personally felt between Polish and Vietnamese culture? Is it partially biographical? I grew up between Polish and Vietnamese cultures, so navigating between two cultures resonates Read more…
Santa Ana, CA – ngày 2 tháng 2 năm 2026 — Hội Văn Học Nghệ Thuật Việt Mỹ (VietnameseAmerican Arts and Letters Association – VAALA) trân trọng thông báo thời gian chính thức mởliên hoan phim và ra thông báo tuyển phim cho Viet Film Fest 2026, đánh dấu 23 Read more…
Santa Ana, CA – February 2, 2026 — The Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association (VAALA) is proud to announce the official dates and Call for Entries for Viet Film Fest 2026, marking the festival’s 23rd year of celebrating Vietnamese storytelling and culture in film. The festival will feature three Read more…
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…