LANGUAGES: Vietnamese | SUBTITLES: English
Genre: drama, surrealist fiction, short film, gay
Running Time: 27 minutes
Year of production: 2018
SYNOPSIS
The daily life of a homosexual man whose body is inhabited by ants. This is a portrait of freedom eventually.
PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION
Film exports/World sales: Gonella Productions
CAST
Pham Thanh Binh … The man whose body is inhabited by ants
Nguyen Thi To………Grandmom
MAIN CREDITS
Director: Viet Vu (Pham Quang Trung)
Screenwriter: Viet Vu (Pham Quang Trung)
Producer: Viet Vu (Pham Quang Trung)
Nguyen Quynh Trang
Director of Photography: Ha Hoang
Sound: Nguyen Kien Trung
Editing: Viet Vu (Pham Quang Trung)
Sound Editing: Arnaud Soulier
Music Composer:
TECHNICAL DETAILS
Genre: Drama
Sub-genre: coming of age, suburban-themed movie, surrealist, gay
Language: Vietnamese
Country of origin: Vietnam
Year of production: 2018
Total running time: 27 minutes
Shooting format: HD
Color type: Color
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Sound format: Stereo sound
AWARDS
Purin Award for The Most Promising Filmmaker from South East Asia – SeaShorts Film Festival, Malaysia, 2018
Best Film, Best Actor – FY Film Festival, Vietnam, 2019
FESTIVAL SELECTIONS
– 50th International Tampere Film Festival, Tampere, Finnland (2020); International Competition
– Image Forum Film Festival (2020), Tokyo, Japan; Vivid Memories/the selection of experimental masterpieces in South-East Asia
– 23rd Queer Lisboa International Film Festival; Lisbon, Portugal, 2019; Special Mention Award
– 10th Short Waves Festival (2018); In Focus
– 29th Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore, 2018; Main Competition Shorts
– 9th Cambodian International Competition, Phnompenh, Cambodia, 2019; International Competition Shorts
– 2nd Seashorts Film Festival, Penang, Malaysia, 2018; Purin Award for The Most Promising Filmmaker from South East Asia.
– 2nd FY Film Fest, HCM City, Vietnam, 2018; Best Film Award, Best Actor Award.
BIOGRAPHY OF THE DIRECTOR
Viet Vu (Quang Trung Pham) is a Vietnamese-born filmmaker who has lived and made films in various cities and different political & cultural regions across Asia and Europe – including Hanoi (Vietnam), Lisbon (Portugal), Budapest (Hungary) and Brussels (Belgium). He has so far completed a series of short films with themes of memory, time and internal decolonization. His works have been shown at Locarno, Tampere, Singapore, and other film festivals around the world. “Ant-Man” was his debut short, which won him “Purin Award for The Most Promising Filmmaker from South East Asia” at SeaShorts Film Festival, Malaysia, 2018.
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