Tran Anh Hung, his wife and two children returned to Vietnam after winning an award at Cannes.

Director Tran Anh Hung, actress Tran Nu Yen Khe and their two children Cao Phi and Lang Khe have just returned to Vietnam after receiving the Best Director award at the 76th Cannes Film Festival.

Also on this occasion, Tran Anh Hung organized a series of workshops (July 6-12) for young filmmakers and actors. The course is part of the "Autumn Meeting" program. 2023 is the 8th year that the male director returns as a lecturer for the directing class within the program.

Director Tran Anh Hung (Photo: Organizing Committee).

On the morning of July 6, director Tran Anh Hung held a workshop for young Vietnamese and international directors in District 1 (HCMC).

Tran Anh Hung is a teacher, an elder brother, and an inspiration to many young Vietnamese and Asian directors through courses at "Autumn Meeting" with the participation of students from many countries.

Many students of this course have had feature films selected and won awards at the Berlin, Toronto, Rotterdam, Busan Film Festivals and short films selected for official competition rounds at the Berlin, Venice, Locarno, Busan Film Festivals...

Workshop of director Tran Anh Hung on the morning of July 6 (Photo: Organizing Committee).

This year, the course selected 16 official students from Thailand, Cambodia, China, Singapore, Germany, France and Vietnam.

Among them, Uisenmar Borchu - a German student of Mongolian origin whose feature film was selected for the Berlin Film Festival - is one of this year's students. She is also a female director who is very familiar with "Autumn Meeting" as she has screened and attended forums on women filmmakers in previous seasons.

Director Tran Anh Hung with his wife and two children on the Cannes red carpet (Photo: Screenshot).

Tran Anh Hung is a famous director, with an important voice in the Asian and world filmmaking community.

At the 76th Cannes Film Festival, he won the Best Director award for "The Passion of Doudin-Bouffant" starring Juliette Binoche.

This is a memorable milestone in Tran Anh Hung's career after the Golden Lion award at the 52nd Venice Film Festival (1995), the Golden Lens award at the 46th Cannes Film Festival (1993) and the 1994 Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.

Tran Anh Hung was born in 1962 in Da Nang , then moved to France. He studied at the prestigious École Louis-Lumière film school and graduated with the short film "The Young Woman of Nam Xuong" ("La Femme Mariée de Nam Xuong"), inspired by a literary work.

In 1993, Tran Anh Hung's "The Scent of Green Papaya" received an Oscar nomination in the category of Best Foreign Language Film.

To date, this is still the only Vietnamese-language film to compete in the final round of the world's most prestigious film awards.

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