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Viet Film Fest 2021: Coming To a Screen Near You – at Home!

The Vietnamese community’s largest film festival outside Vietnam continues virtually in 2021, bringing more accessibility to films that center Vietnamese artists and stories. Thursday, May 6, 2021 – ORANGE, CA – The Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association (VAALA) is proud to announce that Viet Film Fest (VFF) 2021 will Read more…

By admin, 5 yearsMay 8, 2021 ago

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Viet Film Fest Calls for Submissions 2021

See Vietnamese Translation here MISSION The mission of Viet Film Fest is to celebrate Vietnamese stories and voices in cinema. DESCRIPTION Viet Film Fest was created in 2003 by the Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA). As the largest international Vietnamese film festival of its kind in the world, Read more…

By admin, 6 yearsFebruary 21, 2021 ago

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A Letter to Our Community: VAALA Stands in Support of the Black Lives Matter Movement

A Letter to Our Community: VAALA Stands in Support of the Black Lives Matter Movement “The function of freedom is to free someone else.” ― Toni Morrison The Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association (VAALA) grieves the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless others Read more…

By admin, 6 years ago

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COVID-19 Update 4/7/2020

VAALA’s first priority is always the health and safety of our community. In keeping with the social distancing directives from our local, state, and federal health agencies to combat COVID-19, we have suspended all VAALA programming for the next few months. Unfortunately, there’s no way for anyone to know what Read more…

By admin, 6 years ago

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Viet Film Fest Calls for Submissions

Deadline: May 15, 2020 (Early bird: April 30, 2020) Festival Dates October 9-11, 2020 MISSION The mission of Viet Film Fest is to celebrate Vietnamese stories and voices in cinema. DESCRIPTION Viet Film Fest was created in 2003 by the Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA). As the largest Read more…

By admin, 7 years ago

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Viet Film Fest 2019 Celebrates Vietnamese Cinema Around The Globe

ORANGE, CA – The Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association (VAALA) is proud to announce that the Viet Film Fest 2019 will be kicking-off its 3-day event with the charming, blockbuster, romantic comedy My Mr. Wife, directed by Charlie Nguyen (The Rebel), on Friday, October 11, 2019 at 7:00 pm Read more…

By admin, 7 yearsSeptember 8, 2019 ago

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Viet Film Fest 2019 to announce new festival lineup at red carpet launch party

The Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association (VAALA) is excited to invite the public to a star-studded party to officially launch Viet Film Fest 2019. This free event will take place on September 8th, from 3 – 5pm, at Viet Film Fest’s venue, AMC Orange 30, located at The Outlets Read more…

By admin, 7 yearsAugust 29, 2019 ago

Viet Film Fest is with Quyên Nguyen-Le.

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🎥“Free to Love” gathers a slate of short films that stretch and challenge not only gender expressions, but genre expectations – putting queer love in focus, a little off-centered, with family and longing in the foreground. 🎟️ Tickets are officially live—secure your seats today and be part of the story. vietfilmfest2026.eventive.org/schedule/6a975c06b70c3031c7aa3655🎬 In Before the Sea Forgets, we join the journey of two men looking for a burial site in Đà Nẵng, in parallel with a seemingly random group of skateboarders who find themselves reciting poetry. From there we zoom into the intimate space of a bathroom for the first scene of Mother’s Spring (Mùa xuân của mẹ), where a daughter literally and figuratively struggles in their áo dài, not realizing that a first generation mother also needs grace. Just as you get a chance to come up for air, you will find yourself tossed into a genre-bending roller coaster. There, you must Close the Eye to See the unspeakable truth that a mourned lover must face as he is haunted by horror and spirituality. We then round out the set with our final two unscripted films which give voice to Intergenerational Stories, and explore various viewpoints of all ages where love is really love and acceptance means truly accepting not only others but yourself. Between Us gives a rare glimpse into older lesbians who paved the way, supportive parents who raise signs along with their children, and the community forms and uplifts as a result. As Auntie Hanh says, “I know the truth can be painful to others. But the truth must be the truth.”⚠️This short film set contains mature themes and nudity. Viewer discretion is advised. 🏷️Tag: Jocelyn 🫧 mothersspring _chisvix_ Quyên Nguyen-Le Trâm Anh Nguyễn andrea Khushil Doshi Emma Dương Trần Cleveland Winsa🥂 emily chae Steve Nguyen aeswxx harry nguyen Rainnie Zhu ... See MoreSee Less

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Viet Film Fest

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🎥 "Strangers and Their Babies" is set to screen at Viet Film Fest 2026!🎟️ Tickets are officially live—secure your seats today and be part of the story. vietfilmfest2026.eventive.org/schedule/6a90786de66ebd7f3db73d12🎬 Taiwan’s first film accepted to Viet Film Fest is a documentary uncovering a side to the history of Vietnamese Boat People long overshadowed. Building upon his earlier documentary A Camp Unknown (2023), Asio Liu Chihsiung’s Strangers and Their Babies covers the lives of four people of Vietnamese descent as they retrace their respective family’s dangerous journey across open waters from Vietnam to Taiwan. Strangers and Their Babies is a production of Taiwan’s Public Television Service (PTS). The film’s four subjects are scattered across the world, having lived most of their lives in the United States or Taiwan. Their sense of belonging and identity is inextricably drawn from their families’ flights from Vietnam – which, for our subjects, casts psychological shadows similar to, but different from, most Boat People’s personal histories. And yet, they are the lucky ones.🏷️Tag: ) 澎湖難民營三部曲 Penghu Refugee Camps Trilogy at the Taiwan Strait & 講美難民檔案協會 The Chiangmei Refugee Archive Association - CRAA ... See MoreSee Less

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Viet Film Fest is with Duc Duong and Nghiem Quynh Trang.

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🎥 “The Very Thought of You” is set to screen at #VietFilmFest2026! 🎬These four films look at love (or one’s idea of what love is) at different stages: its beginnings, the point of betrayal, and in death and separation. 🎟️ Tickets are officially live—secure your seats today and be part of the story. viet-film-fest.carrd.co🎬 We open with budding beginnings in Nguyễn Năng Hải An’s 5011 (which helped the director earn a spot at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts). There, a Vietnamese high school boy, unsure how to act or speak around his crush, seeks advice from a friend who might not be of much help. Empty (Trống), directed by Mai Hoài Nguyễn Tuấn Anh (or “Luey”) follows. Loosely adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short story “Kino”, the protagonist returns home to find his wife having an affair. He flees the scene, headed for anywhere but home – his ultimate destination will feature curious moments symbolizing unresolved feelings. A lack of emotional resolution carries over into the closing half of this set. The animated short Water Girl (Fille d’eau), directed by Sandra Desmazières (VFF 2023’s Flowing Home), finds an elderly freedive fisher reminiscing about loved ones now far away. As a reversal of Orpheus and Eurydice, Nghiêm Quỳnh Trang’s Visiting Heaven Gate sees a daughter and mother make an ascending pilgrimage in hopes of seeing their father and husband, respectively, one last time. Together, our final two films close on the idea that love abides. ... See MoreSee Less

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