Monday, 27/09/2021 17:03 (GMT+7)
The Vietnam Cinema Department has granted Vietnamese film “Memoryland” to compete in the New Currents category during the Busan International Film Festival to take place in Republic of Korea from October 6 to 15.
A scence in the film “Memoryland”
The film has multiple stories set in various locations and periods of time that are closely connected by death.
Directed by Bui Kim Quy, the film is about a poor boy carefully budgeting the expenses for his mother’s funeral. Another is about a woman who decides to bury her husband, who was killed in an accident at a construction site, in his hometown to comfort his soul.
Quy is a writer and director who previously studied screenwriting at the Hanoi Academy of Theater and Cinema and also works as a lecturer. In addition, she writes scripts for films as well as television.
Her first feature film, 'Nguoi Truyen Giong', ‘The Inseminator’ in English, was shown in the Window On Asian Cinema section in Busan back in 2014 before going on to win the Best Film Photography Award at the 2015 ASEAN International Film Festival.
Memoryland, her second movie, was supported by the ASEAN Cinema Fund Busan’s Script Development Fund in 2016./.
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