Truong Minh Quy's film 'Viet and Nam' competes at Cannes Film Festival 2024

This year's Cannes Film Festival opens with The Second Act, directed by Quentin Dupieux. Filmmaker George Lucas will receive the honorary Palme d'Or.

Canadian director Xavier Dohan is the President of the jury for the Un Certain Regard category.

Truong Minh Quy in the short film he directed, The Man with Red Nails

19 works competing for the Palme d'Or, including notable films: Kinds of Kindness (directed by Yorgos Lantimos), Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes), The Shrouds (David Cronenberg), Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)...

Four female directors are in the running this year: Andrea Arnold ( Bird ), Coralie Fargeat ( The Substance ), Payal Kapadia ( All We Imagine as Light ), and Agathe Riedinger ( Wild Diamond ). That's down from last year but up from previous years when no female filmmakers were selected.

Adam Driver and Aubrey Plaza in Megalopolis

The Un Certain Regard category includes 15 films. The Vietnamese and Southern work by director Truong Minh Quy is on the list of contenders with The Dammed (Roberto Minervini), The Shameless (Konstantin Bojanov), On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Rungano Nyoni)…

"Truong Minh Quy is an amazing director. We have a gem on our hands!", commented Eric Lagesse, President of Pyramide International. Viet and Nam is Truong Minh Quy's third work.

Last year, Pham Thien An won the Camera D'or award at the Cannes Film Festival for his debut film Inside the Golden Cocoon and French director of Vietnamese origin Tran Anh Hung won the Best Director award for Muon Vi Nhan Gian. This year, Vietnamese cinema has new representatives from Viet and Nam competing.

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