Vietnam: Here & There (2026)

Phuong, An, and Nhu are Vietnamese women in their early 20s. The three become illegal residents in Japan after escaping from their workplace as technical trainees. An contacts a broker to help them find work. The broker takes them to a fisherman's ice-covered hut where they can stay in exchange for labour. They are happy because, as well as finding a job, they have also doubled their salary. As they start their work, Phuong suddenly falls to the ground, stricken with severe pain. Worried, An and Nhu take Phuong to a hospital, but they are refused admission for not having an ID card. Second feature film by its director.

After many years of absence, the "Gió Mới" (New Wind) drama troupe returns to the stage with a new production. Hà and Hùng, former lovers, are cast as the lead actors. The friction between art, the collective, and personal emotions during the decline of Northern Vietnamese theater in the 1990s forces these artists to grapple with the changing times.

An unlikely friendship forms between a burglar and an elderly widower after a failed break-in. The pair embark on a journey through Vietnam's desert as the old man seeks to fulfill his last wish.

Like 46-year-old Nguyen Van Cuong, most of the others are also skeptical. Some families have lived for generations in the self-built huts that float on a raft. The water, the Bay of Ha Long, is their home. They make a living from fish farming or the tourism industry, but the growing communities are a thorn in the government's side. Therefore the residents are being forcibly relocated to the mainland. They receive compensation and new homes, but their future remains uncertain.

Suong, a young girl from rural Vietnam, migrates to the bustling city of Saigon to work in a local eatery with two other migrant workers. Within the caging, barren walls of the eatery, their days are filled with repetitive tasks and with vacuous, tedious hours. However, behind her veil of apathy, Suong battles a dilemma that she soon has to face with her family.

A woman reporter named Lien interviews a former wartime prostitute from South Vietnam named Nguyet, now a patient in a hospital, about her brief sheltering of an injured Vietcong leader during the war.

The journey of a small classical Vietnamese opera (Tuồng) troup, one of the very few left, as they travel and perform through the Western Vietnam countryside. Behind the closed curtains, the Royal characters are commoners and peasants who struggle to make ends meet. On the verge of disbandment, what future awaits the troup, its artists, and this traditional art form?

A young policeman is determined to trace down the elusive Windy Devil Gang that has been wrecking terror and fear across the city. As the chase seems to know no bounds, the possibilities of discovery dissolve into infinity.

Feeling that his end is near, a father seeks extreme measures to guarantee that his mentally disabled son would continue the family lineage.

A man returns to his hometown, where he's haunted by past memories and desires.

In early-80s’ Hanoi, a director of a state-owned factory welcomes his wife, a journalist, into a changed home after she spent some time away. As she struggles to make sense of their new wealth, he struggles to avoid embezzlement charges by a poor inspector—who turns out to be an old friend of hers.

A rich man's fiance dies in a car accident.

Returning to Vietnam after many years of studying abroad, a doctorate in atomic force Thai Duong entered an unimaginable reality. Many funny situations took place in his family when he was pondering over choosing a job in a new environment. Thai Duong was tricked into losing money, and his father and brother Loc Ton performed a risky mission to earn money: buying liquidated bombs.

In this mosaic of intimate portraits, a group of humans from Saigon's LGBTQ community struggle to find their place and reconnect with their families in a city where social norms still reject them.

In modern-day Saigon, three lonely strangers form a unique family as a ten-year old orphan plays matchmaker to a zookeeper and a beautiful flight attendant.

"I am the survivor of the laughing forest, but no happiness survived with me." Deep within the vast jungles under the canopy of the Trường Sơn Mountains, the girls guarding the military warehouse were consumed by loneliness, somber rainy seasons, and scorching dry seasons. After a battle, they fell before having the chance to love anyone—except for Thảo, the only girl who did not succumb to "laughing sickness." She returned to the city carrying the wounds of war. Adapted from the short story of the same name by Võ Thị Hảo.

Mai, a ribbon dancer from the countryside arrives in Saigon and befriends Kim, a street dancer. A promise of a better life leads their dance crew to the big competition, but a romance with a rich kid threatens to derail Kim's plans.

Dilemmas of a Vietnamese woman living in America based on the Vietnamese epic poem The Tale of Kieu.

Although the hearts and goals and desires are different for everyone in a culturally-shifting Ho Chi Minh City, the stories of four separate individuals paint a vivid picture of the past, present, and future of a city eking into a new era.

Several decades in the future, an astronaut on Mars contacts his father on Earth and ask him about how things were in the past, in Vietnam. Several of the Vietnamese ethnic minorities, Ruc, Kor and Hmong are explored.

After contracting tuberculosis, a Vietnamese student in Paris thinks that his girlfriend deserves better.