Singapore Films: To The World & Back Trailer
Pham Ngoc Lan is a Vietnamese artist whose work focuses on the direct, poetic and whimsical aspects of human life. Lan has made 3 shorts: The Story of Ones (2011, Visions du Reel), and two Berlinale Shorts Competition Another City (2016) & Blessed Land (2019). Lan is developing his first feature Cu Li Never Cries (Cannes L’Atelier, Busan APM, SEAFIC x Produire Au Sud & Talents Tokyo).
Total trailers found: 9
21 February 2024
Uncovers the remarkable story of how this small nation has made an indelible mark on Asian cinema in the past five years.
05 September 2020
Produced by the Luang Prabang Film Festival, "MEKONG 2030" is a collection of short narrative films that envision the future of the Mekong River from five different national and cultural perspectives.
15 October 2011
Utilizing the banality of Vietnamese state radio broadcasts, The Story of Ones gives a face and a sense of place to the unseen and offers a personal counterpoint to the officially sanctioned.
15 November 2024
A woman tries to cling onto dimming links to her past after inheriting a pygmy slow loris from her long-estranged husband; meanwhile, her niece prepares for marriage as the young couple ponders their gloomy future together.
06 August 2020
Stories told along the river: a woman reunites with her ex-lover at a hydroelectric plant; meanwhile, a young man travels downstream to a temple in search of a cure for his insomnia.
16 February 2016
When the urban landscape shapes the human relations: a mature woman, a bride and a group of young people seek proximity in the anonymity of the big city.
28 October 2020
An alien arrives on Earth on a quest to find assistance to rebuild his home. Under dissociated instruction of his spaceship, he makes a stopover at a construction site in Vietnam, where the biggest temple of the world is being built.
02 July 2025
After her father's passing, a daughter returns to Vietnam to be with her mom. Their pilgrimage to Heaven Gate reflects their struggle to connect since his loss.
12 February 2019
In the dune landscape of a cemetery, or is it golf course? Past and present converge in the search for a grave.
