THE RIVER
RUNS
STILL
DRAMA, 14', 2024
On a houseboat, a stateless young woman prepares to move ashore — but when her husband returns with broken news and falls into the river, she watches, already severed from the life that held her.
// in festival circuit, seeking distribution partner //
OFFICAL SELECTION, New York Asian Film Festival 2025
CREW
Directing and Script: Mai Huyền Chi
Director of Photography: Lê Kim Hưng
Set Design: Ngô Đình Bảo Châu
Music Composer: Hà Thuý Hằng
Sound Mix: Sigon Sound Production
Poster designed by Truong Ngoc Quoc Dung
CAST
Lê Phương Nhi (Lụa),
Nguyễn Hoàng Anh (Út),
Võ Thị
Tha (herself),
Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Quế Anh (herself).
PRODUCTION
Producer: Mai Huyền Chi
Line producer: Thảo Quiêng
Co-producer: John Badalu
Executive Producers: Mai Huyền Chi,
Hồ Nguyên Ngọc
Supported by: BEBESEA Fellowship
"This is a short film made from a few scenes from my feature-length film project, “THE RIVER KNOWS OUR NAMES." It is an exercise in working with and involving the community in the filmmaking process, which is essential to the philosophy of this particular film project.It offers a brief glimpse into the lives of stateless boat women who find themselves trapped, belonging nowhere, and with few opportunities to break the cycle.To make this film is to create a fictional space and a time where a woman like them lives and breathes, dreams and breaks, loses and fights again."
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