Mai Huyền Chi is a Vietnamese writer-director whose films explore memory, identity, and belonging, centring voices often left out of dominant narratives. Film and art making, to her, are acts of care.
Responding to a world marked by division and ecological crisis, her recent projects aim to foster deeper human connections with land, water, and one another, employing participatory approaches that invite communities to tell and shape their own stories.
Her latest documentary film, 50 Years Of Forgetting commissioned by Al Jazeera, received 100K views in the first ten days in 2025.
Her short fiction debut, The River Runs Still was an official selection for New York Asian Film Festival in 2025.
She is the founder of Cinema CNN (Cinema of Peasants), a community film screening program fostering independent cinema and critical conversations in contemporary Vietnam.
Chi is developing her debut fiction feature, The River Knows Our Names, winner of the 2024 Tokyo Talents Award. She is also working on a hybrid book and other film projects drawn from her evolving research and creative exploration.
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50 Years of Forgetting (2025), documentary commissioned by Al Jazeera, reached 100,000+ viewers within ten days.
The River Runs Still (2024), official selection at New York Asian Film Festival 2025.
The River Knows Our Names, fiction feature in development, winner of Tokyo Talents Award 2024.
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