Nguyễn Phan Linh Đan
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Biography
Linh Dan Nguyen Phan was born in 1996 into an artistic family. After graduating from New York University, she returned to Vietnam to make films. Her first film project is If Wood Could Cry, It Would Cry Blood, which won the Asian Project Market award at the 2021 Busan Film Festival. Previously, the short film Lost directed by Nguyen Phan Linh Dan was selected to attend the 2016 Cannes Film Festival in the Short Film category. One year later, the short film Vo Dien co-written by Linh Dan was awarded the Golden Kite Award by the Vietnam Cinema Association. She was also worked as a DOP in this project. Linh Dan grew up in between the Vietnamese and French culture and now works in NYC and Vietnam. Art for her is the emergency exit to freedom in the political context of her home country. As a filmmaker and aspiring pilot, she aims for her work to be the B-52 of her revolution. Dan has a BFA in Film and TV Production at New York University Tisch School of the Arts and a Studio Arts minor at NYU Steinhardt. As a Director of Photography, Linh Dan received funds from Panavision, one of the world's leading professional movie camera companies. She is one of the only female D.O.P working in Vietnam. She has won major awards like: L'OFFICIEL Vietnam - Women of our Time, ARTE Kino International Prize, New York Foundation of Arts - Made in NY Grant Recipient 2019, Russell Hexter Filmmaker Fund Recipient 2019, Todd Phillips Film Production Award 2019, "Best Short" - Golden Kite Award 2018, Sundance Film Festival - Horizon Award Finalist 2019, A.P.A STARR Fund Recipient 2018, etc
Known For
When her boyfriend grows close to a wealthy new colleague, a woman and her friends set out to expose the woman's true motives.
The 4 Rascals
"The Trophy Wife" is a comedy-drama about Tú Lạc (Uyển Ân), a pretentious young woman who fakes wealth and sophistication to win the heart of rich heir Bảo Hoàng. However, to marry him, she must face his mother, bà Phượng (Thu Trang), who values status and detests everything Tú Lạc represents. Determined to secure her dream life, Tú Lạc ropes her family into a grand scheme to deceive their way into the elite world.
The Trophy Bride
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.
Cu Li Never Cries
When a famous celebrity with a dark past meets an old friend from 15 years ago, secrets start to come back from the grave…
Girl from the Past
After the fall of Paris, Lionel and Nana return to Saigon as climate refugees with colonial habits. Trapped inside a private karaoke room purchased in the name of protection, Nana is forced to confront the fruit of a marriage system built on patriarchal shame—and awaken her way out.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CO-OPERATION
Linh, an art student, moves to a new house where she encounters a ghost. She helps him to uncover the mysterious cause of his death realizing what’s important in her life.
Secrets of the Wind
Untold stories of women fighting in Vietnam. Examines intergenerational trauma, hope, validating female resilience. Through reconciliation narratives, redefines love as humanity's aim: healing and acceptance.
Woman I Woman
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
A family drama exploring relationships, expectations, and changes across generations.
My Share of Sky: Ek Mutthi Badal
Saigonese DJ Van Anh and her girlfriend Ly are struggling to end their relationship. Then a strange woman shows up to free the spirit of her long lost Father from their apartment.
Spring Will Come
In contemporary Hanoi, haunted by the echoes of an unfinished love between a Vietnamese worker who left for East Germany in the 1980s and the woman who stayed behind, what remains after the collapse of an ideology lingers in faltering bodies, muted gestures, and misty corners. Echoes of the past ripple through a drifting generation: an inherited fatigue, a quiet unrest, a looping refrain, a trembling future. Kieu Anh Phuong Nguyen’s film is a slightly melancholic and deeply atmospheric story told in elliptical black-and-white images.