Movies by Hồng Ánh

Blood Moon Party
Four childhood friends and their wives at an upscale dinner party. After a much-heated discussion about how smartphones influence their personal lives, the group proposes a late-night game: everyone is to place their mobiles on the table; whoever gets a text, notification or call must share it with the group. It is a recipe for disaster.

Song of the South
As French colonial rule reaches a violent end in Vietnam, a 12 year old boy makes a treacherous journey in search of his estranged father.

Close The Eye To See
Two young university students, Nam and Minh, live together in a small rented apartment. They are lovers. Minh suddenly disappears, leaving Nam soullessly alone in the apartment. The confusing emotions and feelings contained within Nam have not been expressed. Nam’s beautiful memories of Minh are replaced by horrifying delusions: the brutal, tragic death of the person he loves. Nam sees his hands stained with Minh's blood, and he is the one who killed Minh in those dreams. This makes Nam feel even more miserable. He is disoriented and no long...

Goodbye Mother
Văn comes back to Saigon from the US with his boyfriend Ian to visit his mother. Being the male heir of the family, everyone expects him to take a wife soon. And to top it all, his grandmother, who has Alzheimer, mistakes Ian for her grandson.

The Mother's Soul
Lan and her daughter Thu live in a lowland area in the middle of the Red river delta. Their typical day’s work includes going to the Long Bien Market very early in the morning to buy wholesale groceries and resell them back in a local market later during the day. Thu’s mother falls in love with a driver, a relation that has no future. However, she loves him so much that she does not make wise decisions and thus her business is operating at a loss. Thu tries to help her mother to make both ends meet. She longs for her mother’s affection and i...