LIVE IN CLOUD-CUCKOO LAND
Pham Hoàng Minh Thy | Vũ Minh Nghĩa | 2020 | Vietnam | 19’ | Fiction
A wedding, traffic congestion, a robbery, a mystical metamorphosis and a love story. Welcome to a modern Kafkaesque tale in a country in full throttle.
Minh Thy Phạm Hoàng works as an independent filmmaker. Her first short film The Graduation of Edison was selected for the Singapore International Film Festival in 2019 and screened at the 3rd edition of Ici Vietnam Festival Cinema in 2020. Live In Cloud-Cuckoo Land, co-directed with Vũ Minh Nghĩa, has been selected for the 2020 Venice Film Festival. She is currently developing her first feature film, Daughter of the Mountain God.
Vũ Minh Nghĩa is a graduate of Ho Chi Minh City University of Theatre and Film. He is pursuing a Master's degree in film criticism. He received a scholarship to study at the Russian National Film University in Moskva. His short film, Hey U, was selected as part of the Asian Vision Short Film at the 2019 Singapore International Film Festival. He is currently preparing his first feature film, Bubble Era.