Cast and crew members from the movie Choi Voi (Adrift) will head to Thailand this month to attend the Bangkok International Film Festival.

Director Bui Thac Chuyen, Vietnamese-American actor Jonny Tri Nguyen and Vietnamese-French actress Pham Linh Dan will attend the event from September 24-30.

The one-week event will showcase more than 80 feature movies by filmmakers from Thailand, the ASEAN region, and a selection of some of the most exciting and innovative films from around the world.

Adrift will vie for recognition in the Main Competition category, which is for movies made by first and second-time directors, and the Southeast Asian Competition, another key category for the film festival.

Chuyen and the cast previously travelled to Italy for the Venice Film Festival, where the movie was screened in a category featuring new trends in world cinema.

The movie is currently being presented at the Toronto International Film Festival, which runs until Sept. 26.
The 110-minute film is a story of tangled love which explores the changing social values in traditional Vietnam . Adrift sketches a portrait of the modern Vietnam where ancestral Confucian values, centred around the family, are increasingly replaced by individualism. The film shows people caught up in complex games of seduction and knocks down the traditional markers of morality in the society. It’s expected that Adrift will be widely screened domestically next year./.