Interviewees: Duc Ngo Ngoc and Duc Thi-Bui, director and co-writer, Made In Germany Interviewer: Katy Nguyen, Programming Intern Would you say living in Germany or speaking German influences one’s personality a certain way for the Vietnamese diaspora? Duc Ngo Ngoc: For us, the second generation of the Vietnamese diaspora in Read more…
Interviewee: Jenny Thach, director, Huong Interviewer: Katy Nguyen, Programming Intern Throughout this documentary, there is a contrast between climate and weather from slowly driving in the cold winter to running in the sand right by the ocean shore. What was your thought process behind this juxtaposition? There were many themes Read more…
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…
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…