Director Tran Anh Hung and actor Tran Nu Yen Khe and two children Cao Phi and Lang Khe have just returned to Vietnam after he received the Best Director award at the 2th Cannes Film Festival.
Also on this occasion, Tran Anh Hung organized a series of seminars (July 6-12) for young filmmakers and actors. The course is part of the "Autumn Encounter" program. 7 is the 2023th year, the male director returns as a lecturer in the director class under the program.
Director Tran Anh Hung (Photo: Organizing Committee).
On the morning of July 6, director Tran Anh Hung had a seminar for young Vietnamese and international directors in District 7 (HCMC).
Tran Anh Hung is a teacher, big brother, who inspires many young Vietnamese and Asian directors through the courses at "Autumn Encounter" with the participation of students from many countries. .
Many students of this course have had long films selected and won prizes at the Berlin, Toronto, Rotterdam, Busan Film Festivals and short films selected for the official competition rounds of the Berlin and Venice Film Festivals. , Locarno, Busan…
The workshop of director Tran Anh Hung on the morning of July 6 (Photo: Organizing Committee).
This year, the course enrolls 16 full-time students from Thailand, Cambodia, China, Singapore, Germany, France and Vietnam.
Among them, Uisenmar Borchu - a German practitioner of Mongolian origin whose feature-length 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 Encounter" when she has screened and attended forums about women making films in previous seasons.
Director Tran Anh Hung with his wife and 2 children at the Cannes red carpet (Photo: Screenshot).
Tran Anh Hung is a famous director who has an important voice in the Asian and international filmmaking community.
At the 76th Cannes Film Festival, he won the Best Director award for "The Passion of Doudin-Bouffant" starring screen star 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 Oscar nomination. 1994 for Best Foreign Language Film.
Tran Anh Hung was born in 1962 in Da Nang, then moved to France to live. He attended the prestigious film school École Louis-Lumière and graduated with the short film “The Young Woman of Nanchang” (“La Femme Mariée de Nam Xuong”), inspired by literary works.
In 1993, the work "The Scent of Green Papaya" ("The Scent of Green Papaya") by Tran Anh Hung received an Oscar nomination in the category of Best Foreign Language Film.
Up to now, this is still the only Vietnamese-language film to participate in the final competition round of the world's most prestigious film award.
