A Vietnamese movie has been nominated to the Discovery category for outstanding works from promising filmmakers around the world at this month’s Toronto International Film Festival in Canada.
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| “Hotboy Noi Loan va Cau Chuyen ve Thang Cuoi, Co Gai Diem va Con Vit” by Vu Ngoc Dang will be screened at the festival under the title “Lost in Paradise.” |
“Hotboy Noi Loan va Cau Chuyen ve Thang Cuoi, Co Gai Diem va Con Vit” by Vu Ngoc Dang will be screened at the festival under the title “Lost in Paradise.”
Giovanna Fulvi, the Asian cinema programmer for the festival, wrote on the festival’s website: “Perhaps the first film from Vietnam to depict homosexual love both explicitly and in a positive light, Ngoc Dang Vu’s ‘Lost in Paradise’ conveys its characters’ lives in a remarkable range of tones, from the humor¬ous to the absurd to the tragic.
“It opens our eyes to rarely glimpsed facets of contemporary Vietnam, and relays stories that are usually left untold.”
The 100-minute film, which narrates the story of Khoa, an innocent man who leaves his poor village for Sai Gon and falls in love with Lam, a male prostitute, has just been finished and is awaiting certification by the National Film Board for public screening in Vietnam.
It will be screened at the festival on September 8, 9, and 16.