Khazsak

“Tan” is a shortfilm written & directed by La Zung, inspired by the people and the events surrounding him. The story is about an unnamed relationship.

When the eldest daughter-in-law Nhị announces her plan to personally fund the renovation of the family’s ancestral house before storm season, tensions rise during a reunion on the anniversary of their late mother’s death.

In 1960s South Vietnam, an eight-year-old boy finds refuge in his family's cinema, drawing hope from the films he watches as he comes of age amid a divisive war.

When beauty becomes an obsession. To save her lover, Thanh accepts a job at a remote beauty clinic. However, the living nightmare of macabre rituals, wandering ghosts, and a terrifying secret lays behind the clinic. Drawn into the "Đi Thiếp" ritual, Thanh is forced to make a choice: to remain in the underworld by her lover’s side, or fight to escape the clutches of the dark forces.

A mother and her sons are in front of the camera. The past is hanging, the future uncertain. A sensory trip through grief, fractured realism, and poetic turmoil.

Feeling stuck, young fisherman Yong-su sees no hope in his future - like a fish in a net. As a last resort, he plans an insurance scam by staging his disappearance, hoping to provide a better life for his Vietnamese wife and his ageing mother. At the centre of this scheme is his captain, Yeong-guk, who reluctantly reports Yong-su missing. However, when Yong-su’s mother refuses to connect her son’s disappearance with his death, the white lie snowballs into something harder to chew.