Cu Li Never Cries

Series of Program

20:00 - 21:35 | Film Screening Cu Li Never Cries
21:35 - 22:20 | Discussion after Screening

Director: Pham Ngoc Lan

Vietnam · 2024 · 1h 32m · Drama

Language Vietnamese

Subtitles English

Synopsis

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. The present and the complex echoes of Vietnamese history are entwined before a contemplative and poetic perspective.

Key Cast

Minh Chau, Ha Phuong, Xuan An, Hoang Ha

Crew

Screenplay: Pham Ngoc Lan, Nghiem Quynh Trang

Producers: Nghiem Quynh Trang, Tran Thi Bich Ngoc

Production Companies: Cadence Studio, An Nam Productions

Co-producers:mSu Ching Teh, Weijie Lai, Claire Lajoumard, Bradley Liew, Bianca Balbuena, Verona Meier

Co-production Companies: Purple Tree Content, E&W Films, Acrobates Films, Epicmedia Productions Inc, Ape & Bjørn / Storm Films

Executive Producers: Su Ching Teh, GIang Le

Cinematographers: Vu Hoang Trieu, Nguyen Vinch Phuc, Nguyen Phan Linh Dan

Sound Recording: To Hieu, Nguyen Ngoc Tan, Hoang Thu Thuy, Truong Quang Cong

Sound Design: Arnaud Soulier

Editor: Julie Beziau

Composer: Tran Kim Ngoc

Production design: Nghiem Quynh Trang

Awards, Nominations & Premieres

Berlinale 2024 / World premiere, GWFF Best First Feature Award, Panorama Audience Award Nominee

New Directors New Films Festival 2024 / North American premiere

Las Palmas International Film Festival / Best Performance Award

Jeonju International Film Festival 2024 / Asian premiere, Best Picture Award, Grand Prize Nominee

Selector’s Statement

“The film explores Mrs. Nguyen's resilience amid changing times, symbolized by the title ‘Cu Li’, which refers to unskilled laborers, exotic lorises, or a medicinal plant. Having once been part of the labor force in East Germany, her journey to scatter ashes at a Vietnamese hydro plant immerses her in memories of her youth. Through themes of generational divide, cultural loss, nostalgia, and selective memory, the film's slow pace, striking cinematography, and black-and-white aesthetics capture the essence of Vietnam’s contemporary atmosphere."

— Sharofat Arabova (Tajikistan), film scholar, AFAF24 Selection Committee member

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