Vietnamese short film won over BiFan 2015 audiences
(VOV) - A Vietnamese short film titled The Scent of Fish Sauce was screened on July 16-26 at the 19th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan 2015) in the Republic of Korea.
The 23-minute film directed by young director Trinh Dinh Le Minh tells a romance between a Vietnamese nurse and a young American male patient.
Mai, a Vietnamese nurse, is hired to take care of an injured American man. After turning him on to the secret pleasures of Vietnamese cooking, Mai's romantic dreams take a strange turn.
The film was made in eight days in 2014 with Ly Bao Tram taking the starring role. Tram has lived in the US for eight years. She is a nurse with innate acting abilities.
Stage director Trinh Dinh Le Minh, 29 years old, graduated from Ho Chi Minh City Cinema and Theatre College. He won a Fulbright scholarship and got a MA degree after three years of study in the University of Texas at Austin.
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| Stage director Trinh Dinh Le Minh |
After BiFan 2015, The Scent of Fish Sauce will take part in the 59th BFI London Film Festival held in the UK this October. A short-film channel in Europe has made an offer to buy the film. Film Director Minh also planned to distribute it on Vimeo and iTunes.