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Tôn Thất An

Tôn Thất An

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Biography

Tôn-Thất An is a Parisian born Vietnamese composer based in Taipei, whose field of action spans music for contemporary dance, film score, theatre, songs, fine arts as well as orchestral and instrumental works. Digging from his Asian roots, looking ahead and around, his musical universe embraces Western classical and contemporary music as well as Asian traditional instruments, electronic, indie-pop or experimental music.

Known For

True Mothers
7.4

After suffering through a long and unsuccessful series of fertility treatments, Satoko and her husband Kiyokazu make the decision to adopt a child. Six years after adopting a boy they named Asato, Satoko has quit her job to concentrate fully on her husband and son. The family lives a peaceful existence until the arrival of a stranger.

True Mothers

2020
Ky Nam Inn
7.5

Set in 1985 post-war Vietnam, Khang moves to Saigon after securing a position to translate "The Little Prince." Due to his family connections, Khang's life under the new regime is secure. But everything changes when he meets Ky Nam, a reserved older widow who lives in Khang's new community.

Ky Nam Inn

2025
Song Lang
6.8

Set against a gloriously filmed backdrop of the distinctly jaded charm of mid-90s Saigon, the lives of two men intertwine as they are both bound by traditions and honor. One to his mafia family, the other to the traveling troupe that performs elaborate classic operas. Yet they have much more in common than either wants to admit.

Song Lang

2018
The Third Wife
6.5

Though only 14 years old, May is selected to be the third wife of a wealthy landowner. Her new home seems idyllic, her husband favours her, and she quickly becomes pregnant with what she is certain will be the desired male progeny. But trouble is quietly brewing: she witnesses a forbidden tryst that will spark a chain reaction of misfortunes — and stir in May urges that until now had been dormant.

The Third Wife

2019
Rom
6.9

14-year-old Ròm works as bookie lottery runner to earn a living. He lives an unsettling life due to his separation from his parents and always yearns to earn enough money to find them.

Rom

2020
Salute
8.8

Dancer SHEU Fang-yi’s career has been told through her modern dance dramas such as Sparrow, Stranger, Wall, and Martha GRAHAM‘s Heretic. Martha GRAHAM once said: “A dancer dies twice — once when they stop dancing, and this first death is the more painful.” At this intersection of her life, SHEU Fang-yi commemorates her glorious past two decades with a funeral, to farewell her past self, and to get ready to move toward her unknown future.

Salute

2022
Skin of Youth
9.0

Two young LGBTQ+ lovers in 1990s Saigon get entangled in the criminal underground and must do battle with dark forces that threaten their relationship and test the limits of their humanity.

Skin of Youth

2025
Moonlight Shadow
6.3

Satsuki lost her boyfriend, Hitoshi, in a car accident. Unable to face up to his death, she spends her days unable to sleep properly. At some point, Satsuki began to jog at dawn as part of her daily routine, and on a bridge she always passes, she meets a mysterious woman named Urara.

Moonlight Shadow

2021
Thief
7.5

The exotic night market of Taipei is the perfect place to be if one is looking to crowd, shop, eat and game, but on this night, it's not just fun and games for those who steal things from others.

Thief

2011
Between shadow and soul
8.8

Mây, a fourteen year-old girl is being married as the third wife to a rich landowner in the late 19th century Northern Vietnam. A black & white reworking of 'The Third Wife' with no dialogue and a newly composed score.

Between shadow and soul

2020
Goodbye Mother
6.5

Văn comes back to Ho Chi Minh City from the US with his boyfriend Ian to visit his mother. Being the male heir of the family, everyone expects him to take a wife soon. And to top it all, his grandmother, who has Alzheimer, mistakes Ian for her grandson.

Goodbye Mother

2019
Eel
3.0

Liang’s simple, humdrum life in his deceased father’s dilapidated boathouse on the Shezi island takes a totally unexpected turn when he saves a mysterious young woman from drowning. A woman with her own painful past meets a man haunted by nightmares.

Eel

2025
Glorious Ashes
7.0

Set in the poor Mekong Delta coastal village of Thơm Rơm, the film follows the lives of three women, whose love lives are unusual and unique to their nature. The film is narrated from Hau's perspective, as she experiences life with a husband who only has eyes for another woman, and develops her growing friendship with her rival.

Glorious Ashes

2022
Hunter Brothers
6.0

Seven years ago, Lin Cheng was jailed for his father’s death. Finally released, he and older brother Hsiang, the real culprit, must face the consequences of the past together.

Hunter Brothers

2025
Last Meal
N/A

Chou is a bit of an asshole. His habits include squatting, hanging out on the street, and teasing his old pal Deng. In his eyes, this is his world. One day, he finds out there are still some tragedies that he cannot handle.

Last Meal

2021
Sammi, Who Can Detach His Body Parts
6.0

Sammi has the ability to remove parts of his body and give them to those he loves and wants to help. After his death, Sammi’s mother goes in search of the pieces of her son.

Sammi, Who Can Detach His Body Parts

2025
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N/A

Set in Malaysia, the film follows a young woman named Du Li An who falls in love with a man named Lin Sang in 1969 before he mysteriously disappears. Years later, after marrying a gangster and becoming stepmother to a teenage girl, Du Li An encounters a man who looks exactly like her vanished lover. The decade-spanning narrative blends elements of romance, mystery and coming-of-age storytelling.

The Age Of Goodbyes

PictureHouse
N/A

In 1960s South Vietnam, an eight-year-old boy finds refuge in his family's cinema, drawing hope from the films he watches as he comes of age amid a divisive war.

PictureHouse

Child of Tomorrow
N/A

Afei, a young factory worker, is 40 weeks pregnant out of wedlock. Her boss threatened to fire her if she didn’t return to work immediately after giving birth. She thought hiring an unlicensed babysitter would keep her job, but he took the money and disappeared, leaving her with no choice but to ask her ex-boyfriend, the baby’s father, for help, despite her hatred for him. Unbeknownst to her, this request led to a child abuse case.

Child of Tomorrow

2023
Somewhere Unknown in Indochina
N/A

Can a living person dream of a ghost's dreams and assume ghosts can dream? This VR project reveals a forgotten Indochinese refugee camp in Asia and tells a story about a dream within another. The narrative is based on an unknown Vietnamese refugee camp in Penghu, Taiwan, and includes a dream about an unidentified female victim from the Khmer Rouge period. Phuong, the protagonist, was a 13-year-old Vietnamese refugee born in Cambodia. In those dreams, an unidentified Cambodian girl reveals the story of Phuong's family by asking, "HAVE YOU EVER BEEN THERE"? But what does she mean by "THERE"?

Somewhere Unknown in Indochina

2024