Nha San Collective - The Vietnamese independent cinema: Nguyen Trinh Thi, Phan Dang Di, Pham Ngoc Lan

​This Saturday, April 16 at 14 pm, Film club Yda will present films from Vietnamese independent filmmakers Nguyen Trinh Thi, Phan Dang Di, Pham Ngoc Lan

Address: Cinema La Clef, 34 rue Daubenton, Paris 5th Metro: Censier - Daubenton

IN SMOKE AND CLOUDS - LETTERS FROM PANDURANGA (Trong Khoi Va May)

A film essay Nguyen Thi Trinh, 2015, 37 ', French subtitles. Co-production: Jeu de Paume Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux, National Federation of Graphic and Plastic arts, Cultural Exchanges Danish Fund CDEF.

Spiritual center of the ancient Champa kingdom and future site of the first two nuclear power plants in Viet Nam, Panduranga - Cham name of Phan Rang - is the starting point of a letter exchange between a man and a woman, both filmmakers, who question their film work, historical reflection and ethnographics, cultural politics.

WHEN TO 20 YEARS (Khi toi 20)

Fiction Phan Dang Di, 2006, 20 ', French subtitles. Phan Thi Vang Anh and Phan Dang Di.

Short Film Competition Venice Film Festival 2008

A young couple in love in a room so low that one can not stand up. The girl, whose job being a prostitute, often talks to her lover of his clients. Until her lover asked her to go on the journey he has dreamed of, the girl decline citing an appointment with a client ...

ANOTHER CITY  (Thanh pho khac)

Pham Ngoc Lan, 2016, 25 ', French subtitles.

Short films competition Berlinale 2016.

Middle-aged woman looking for feeling alive beside the young boys, girls prepare to get married while being pregnant with her lover, youth groups lodging together but framed in their own world ... While being in the same the city, they are just strangers to each other.

Discussion: Independent cinema in Vietnam with director Nguyen Trinh Thi (Love man love woman, Chronicle of a tape Recorded over, Jo Ha Kyu, In the smoke and clouds) and director Phan Dang Di (When you are 20, Bi fear not, Mekong stories)

Contact: cineclub.yda@gmail.com - PAF: € 5 (students: € 3)