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Phạm Nhuệ Giang

Born December 19, 1957 · Hanoi, Vietnam (age 68)

People’s Artist Phạm Nhuệ Giang (born 19th December 1957 in Hanoi) is a Vietnamese director and screenwriter. Youngest daughter of the famed director Phạm Văn Khoa, she is classically trained in piano and worked briefly as a construction engineer prior to enrolling at Hanoi National Academy for Theatre and Cinema in 1983. Upon graduation, she started working for Vietnam Feature Film Studio in 1983…

Known For

The Chinese Botanist's Daughters

The Chinese Botanist's Daughters · 2006

The Chinese Botanist's Daughters

At the house of a famous Chinese botanist teacher his daughter and a female intern fall in love with each other - a forbidden love that must be kept secret.

The Guava House

The Guava House · 2002

The Guava House

A mentally challenged man spends his days working as an artist's model and visiting the now-occupied house of his childhood, where his beloved guava tree sits.

The Somnambulist Woman

The Somnambulist Woman · 2003

The Somnambulist Woman

A young woman struggles to move on from the consuming grief of her experience as a combat medic in the Trường Sơn mountains during Vietnam War .

A Nameless Eucalyptus

A Nameless Eucalyptus · 1996

A Nameless Eucalyptus

The forbidden love story between a widower who had lost his son and a woman whose husband's fate on the battlefield during the war against the US imperialist is unknown.

The Fortune Seeker

The Fortune Seeker · 1990

The Fortune Seeker

An old man dreams of escaping poverty and securing a better future for his family in retirement through winning a lottery, though luck is never on his side.

The Deserted Valley

The Deserted Valley · 2002

The Deserted Valley

Three teachers run together an elementary school for local Hmong children in a remote mountain village. One day, an incident turns their life upside down, revealing the secrets and feelings they have been hiding for a long time.

Standing In Front Of The Sea

Standing In Front Of The Sea · 1982

Standing In Front Of The Sea

When a post-war fishing firm fails to meet its expected demand, the chief accountant begins falsifying records and cutting down on wages paid to the already struggling fishers.

The Return

The Return · 1994

In the years following the American war a young woman from Hanoi teaches in a rural school in the south. There she meets a troubled young man, and they have a brief romance that she recalls wistfully years later in her unhappy marriage.

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The Chinese Botanist's Daughters

The Chinese Botanist's Daughters · 2006

The Chinese Botanist's Daughters

At the house of a famous Chinese botanist teacher his daughter and a female intern fall in love with each other - a forbidden love that must be kept secret.

Extras Casting

The Guava House

The Guava House · 2002

The Guava House

A mentally challenged man spends his days working as an artist's model and visiting the now-occupied house of his childhood, where his beloved guava tree sits.

Assistant Director

The Somnambulist Woman

The Somnambulist Woman · 2003

The Somnambulist Woman

A young woman struggles to move on from the consuming grief of her experience as a combat medic in the Trường Sơn mountains during Vietnam War .

Assistant Director

A Nameless Eucalyptus

A Nameless Eucalyptus · 1996

A Nameless Eucalyptus

The forbidden love story between a widower who had lost his son and a woman whose husband's fate on the battlefield during the war against the US imperialist is unknown.

Assistant Director

The Fortune Seeker

The Fortune Seeker · 1990

The Fortune Seeker

An old man dreams of escaping poverty and securing a better future for his family in retirement through winning a lottery, though luck is never on his side.

Assistant Director

The Deserted Valley

The Deserted Valley · 2002

The Deserted Valley

Three teachers run together an elementary school for local Hmong children in a remote mountain village. One day, an incident turns their life upside down, revealing the secrets and feelings they have been hiding for a long time.

Director

Standing In Front Of The Sea

Standing In Front Of The Sea · 1982

Standing In Front Of The Sea

When a post-war fishing firm fails to meet its expected demand, the chief accountant begins falsifying records and cutting down on wages paid to the already struggling fishers.

Assistant Director Trainee

The Return

The Return · 1994

In the years following the American war a young woman from Hanoi teaches in a rural school in the south. There she meets a troubled young man, and they have a brief romance that she recalls wistfully years later in her unhappy marriage.

Assistant Director

Aimless

Aimless · 2013

Leaving their village to earn a living in the big city, Tham and Quy's relationship soon suffers in the face of impoverished conditions.

Director

Runaway

Runaway · 1996

After Thi's mother died, her father was unable to raise her, so she lived with her aunt-in-law and grandmother. Thi's grandmother left her a ring when she died. While packing her things, Mrs. Mai discovered it and scolded Thi, causing her to run away from home.

Director

The Mother's Soul

The Mother's Soul · 2011

The Mother's Soul

Thu lives in a village near the river with Lan, her single mother working as a fruit seller. Thu befriends a boy in the village, Đăng, who lost his mother at a young age and is thus mainly raised by his grandparents. As the two children bond, they find in each other the parental figures they have been longing for.

Director

Hanoi: Winter of '46

Hanoi: Winter of '46 · 1999

Hanoi: Winter of '46

MovieHistoryWar

Toward the end of 1946, residents from all walks of Hanoi struggle to avoid—and eventually accept—the possibility of a full-blown war.

Assistant Director

Nostalgia for the Countryside

Nostalgia for the Countryside · 1997

Nostalgia for the Countryside

MovieDramaRomance

The dynamics of a Vietnamese rural village change when an urban woman returns to the village she originally belonged to and begins a love triangle.

Assistant Director

Love in the Alley

Love in the Alley · 1992

Love in the Alley

MovieDramaRomance

Sinh lives in an alley with her elderly mother and Hà, her daughter. When Toàn, an engineer, moves in with them, the mother-daughter relationship becomes tested

Assistant Director

Broken Space

Broken Space · 1998

MovieRomanceDrama

While still heartbroken after her new boyfriend leaves to marry another woman, Đan Linh gets into a serious car accident and is rushed to the hospital where she is treated by Phan, a distant and grumpy surgeon. Despite significant initial distaste from both sides, the pair soon grow a profound appreciation for each other's wisdom and bond over their shared experience of family turbulence.

Assistant Director

The Gamble

The Gamble · 1991

Don Duong stars as a truck driver who falls in love with a young student girl in a roadside border canteen. Unsure about him, she returns to school but finally decides to throw in her lot with him. This decision forms the gambling motif in the film, a decision which causes her grief, when she later becomes the subject of his gamble.

Assistant Director