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GLORIOUS ASHES – A Bùi Thạc Chuyên Film Month Screening
19:00 – 05.10.2025
White Light Cinéhub – COMPLEX 01, 29/31/167 Tây Sơn, Hanoi
Audience members register in advance at: https://tinyurl.com/TTRR-BTCThe screening is educational and non-profit. Viewers are encouraged to contribute 80,000 VND per person. All proceeds will be used for organizing the event and supporting young filmmakers.
Part of the Bùi Thạc Chuyên Film Month.
Set in Thơm Rơm, a poor coastal village in Cà Mau rich in cinematic and cultural textures typical of the riverine Southwest, the film revolves around three women whose unusual romantic lives reveal how they love and attempt to hold on to the men in their lives. The film is based on two short stories, Brilliant Ashes and Drifting Rotten Firewood, by Nguyễn Ngọc Tư, with the screenplay written by the author herself.
Brilliant Ashes is an art-house film marking director Bùi Thạc Chuyên’s return to cinema after a ten-year hiatus. Developed over seven years—from scripting to production—the film is the result of a collaboration between producers from Vietnam, France, and Singapore.
The film won the Golden Montgolfière at the Festival of 3 Continents (France) in 2022; Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Supporting Actress (Ngô Phạm Hạnh Thúy) at the Golden Kite Awards 2023; the Golden Lotus Award, along with awards for directing, cinematography (Nguyễn K’Linh), supporting actor (Lê Công Hoàng), and music (Tôn Thất An) at the Vietnam Film Festival the same year; and Best Supporting Actress (Juliet Bảo Ngọc Dolling) at the Da Nang Asian Film Festival 2023.
The film is not suitable for audiences under 16 years old.
ABOUT DIRECTOR BÙI THẠC CHUYÊN
Born in 1968, Bùi Thạc Chuyên studied Stage Acting, Theatre, and Film Directing at the Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Cinema. After early success with short films such as Eternal Sadness (Gold Prize – Vietnam Short Film Festival 1991) and The Night Cyclo Ride (Third Prize – Cinéfondation, Cannes Film Festival 2001), he was funded by Japan’s NHK to make the documentary Digger of the Earth in 2002 and the feature debut Living in Fear in 2005.
His works have been recognized by domestic and international critics. Notably, Adrift won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2009, and Glorious Ashes won the Golden Balloon – Grand Prize at the Three Continents Festival (France) in 2022.
Bùi Thạc Chuyên is also known as the founder and long-time leader of TPD Centre (since 2002) — Vietnam’s first professional nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing young filmmaking talent through training programs, film grants, creative mentoring, and initiatives to build a community of young filmmakers and cinephiles.
BÙI THẠC CHUYÊN FILM MONTH is organized by the TPD Centre for Young Filmmakers and White Light Cinéhub, with the support of Tunnel Films, Cinepost Hanoi, and COMPLEX 01. The program showcases notable works from the director’s career of over two decades, along with conversations about the craft of filmmaking.
