Live in Cloud-Cuckoo Land
A modern tale of Kafka in Vietnam – a country in the middle of a transformation. The film feels like a piece of cultural news with daily events: a wedding, traffic congestion, a robbery, a mystical metamorphosis, and a love story.
- Vietnam
- 2020, 20 min
- Director: Vũ Minh Nghĩa, Phạm Hoàng Minh Thy
- Director of photography: Dương Đức Lâm, Trần Châu Quốc Hưng
- Editor: Vũ Minh Nghĩa, Phạm Hoàng Minh Thy
- Screenplay: Vũ Minh Nghĩa, Phạm Hoàng Minh Thy
- Music: Vũ Minh Nghĩa
- Cast: Lê Bình Giang, Hương Phùng
- Art Director: Lê Trường
- Producer: Vu Minh Nghia, Pham Hoang Minh Thy
- Production: COO-COO Production
Vũ Minh Nghĩa, Phạm Hoàng Minh Thy
Vũ Minh Nghĩa graduated from the University of Theater and Cinema in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and is currently studying for a master’s degree in film criticism. His earlier short film, Hey U (2018), was screened in the Asian Vision Short Film section at the 2019 Singapore International Film Festival. He is currently developing his first feature film, titled Bubble Era.
Phạm Hoàng Minh Thy is an independent filmmaker. Her debut short film The Graduation of Edison (2019) was screened in the Southeast Asian Short Film Competition at the 2019 Singapore International Film Festival. Her latest short, Live in Cloud-Cuckoo Land (2020), which she co-directed with Vũ Minh Nghĩa, was shown at the 2020 Venice Film Festival.