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The Return

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.

Hanoi: Winter of '46

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

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 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 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.

Nostalgia for the Countryside

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.

The Gamble

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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.

Runaway

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.

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.

Broken Space

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.

Love in the Alley

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