Berlin International Film Festival 2024, Jeonju International Film Festival 2024
GWFF Best First Feature Award (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media), Berlinale 2024 I Best Picture Prize (International), Jeonju International Film Festival 2024
A woman tries to cling onto dimming links to her past after inheriting a pygmy slow loris from her long-estranged husband. Meanwhile, her niece prepares for marriage as the young couple ponders their gloomy future together. The present and the complex echoes of Vietnamese history are entwined before a contemplative and poetic perspective.
Born and raised in Hanoi, Lân graduated with a degree in urban planning and taught himself filmmaking at 27. His short films include The Story of Ones (2012, Visions du Réel); Another City (2016, Berlinale); Blessed Land (2019, Berlinale) and The Unseen River (2021, Locarno, Sundance). Cu Li Never Cries is his first featurelength film.
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