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Dương Diệu Linh

Dương Diệu Linh

Directing

Biography

Linh Duong (Dương Diệu Linh) is an alumnus of the Asian Film Academy and Locarno Summer Academy. Mother, Daughter, Dreams screened in competition at the Singapore International Film Festival 2018. Her latest film Sweet, Salty premiered at the Busan International Film Festival 2019.

Known For

Don’t Cry, Butterfly
6.2

Tam, a diligent wedding venue staffer, discovers her husband’s affair on live TV. Rather than confronting him, she enlists a powerful spell master to win back his love. Tam’s daughter, Ha, pours her frustration into vivid fantasies of a brighter future abroad. Meanwhile, a mysterious House Spirit, visible only to the women, lurks beneath their cracked, leaky ceiling.

Don’t Cry, Butterfly

2025
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
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
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Uncovers the remarkable story of how this small nation has made an indelible mark on Asian cinema in the past five years. Through exclusive interviews and captivating scenes across seven countries, we learn the rich diversity of Singaporean stories, and cast a forward-looking gaze towards an exciting cinematic future. A documentary commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Singapore Film Commission.

Singapore Films: To The World & Back

2024
Spelling Test
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Chinese primary student En Qi struggles with Malay spelling, often confusing it with English. This incurs the wrath of his strict teacher who humiliates and punishes him unsparingly.

Spelling Test

2024
Sweet, Salty
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Ha, who is 40 and pregnant, decides to confront her husband’s secret lover but the showdown leads to a sticky situation that leaves her with a bittersweet realisation.

Sweet, Salty

2019
A Trip to Heaven
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During a peculiar bus tour to the Mekong Delta, the 50-year-old Mdm. Tam bumps into her high school sweetheart. She's hopeful for a chance at reconciliation, but he might not be.

A Trip to Heaven

2020
Mother, Daughter, Dreams
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Phuong rushes home to find her father vanished after another quarrel with her mother. In a desperate attempt to search for him, she seeks help from his mistress. The two women head to the mountain, hoping they could find the man there. But this time, Phuong's mother also vanishes.

Mother, Daughter, Dreams

2017
The Eternal Springtime
5.0

In the middle of a landscape on the brink of extinction, a couple of mom and son trek into a native cave in order to recount their lifetime memories together. This personal portrait cuts deep into the vulnerable present moments of an ex-colonized nation which is transiting into the digital age. Told in the first-person perspective camera, this film also explores a new possibility of storytelling.

The Eternal Springtime

2021
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Two young children traverse an empty urban landscape and eventually meet in an abandoned building to watch a film.

Myths

2015