Vietnamese entry to vie for award at Busan film festival

'Mien Ky Uc' (Memory Land) has been entered in the best feature film category at this year’s Busan International Film Festival in Republic of Korea in October.
 

The film has multiple stories set in various locations and periods of time that are closely connected by death.

The movie will come up against 10 others from countries like Iran, China and India for the New Currents Award.

Bui Kim Quy is a writer and director who studied screenwriting at the Hanoi Academy of Theater and Cinema, and works as a lecturer. She writes scripts for films as well as television.

Her first feature film, 'Người Truyền Giống' (The Inseminator), was shown in the Window On Asian Cinema section in Busan in 2014 and won the Best Film Photography Award at the 2015 ASEAN International Film Festival.

Memoryland, her second movie, was supported by the ASEAN Cinema Fund Busan’s Script Development Fund in 2016.

The 26th Busan International Film Festival will be held from October 6 to 15./.

VNA