ANT-MAN (2018)

Purin Award for The Most Promising Filmmaker from South East Asia – SeaShorts Film Festival, Malaysia, 2018
Best Film, Best Actor – 2nd FY Film Festival, Vietnam, 2019
Special Mention, Queer Lisboa International Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal 2019

World Premiere

– 2nd Seashorts Film Festival, Penang, Malaysia, 2018, Purin Award for The Most Promising Filmmaker from South East Asia

Festivals Screenings

– 50 International Tampere Film Festival, Tampere, Finnland (2020); International Competition
– Image Forum Film Festival (2020); Vivid Memories/the slection of experimental masterpieces in South-East Asia
– 23rd Queer Lisboa International Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal, 2019; Special Mention Award
– 10th Short Waves Festival (2018), In Focus
– 29th Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore, 2018; South East Asian Competition Shorts
– 9th Cambodian International Competition, Phnompenh, Cambodia, 2019; International Competition Shorts

- 2nd FY Film Fest, HCM City, Vietnam 2018; Best Film Award, Best Actor Award

TRAILER

Duration: 27 minutes

Form: Fiction, drama

Country of production: Vietnam

Synopsis: The daily life of a homosexual man whose body is inhabited by ants.

Director’s notes:
Film is not a medium that provides merely breath-taking visual experiences. Film can also extract beauty from daily life, the long-lasting type of experience that audience can consume slowly and gradually. Blended between docu-fiction style and surrealism, this short portrays a man in trap of oppression because of the ants inside his body.

CAST

Pham Thanh Binh … The man whose body is inhabited by ants
Nguyen Thi To………Grandmom

MAIN CREDITS

Director: Viet Vu (Pham Quang Trung)
Screenwriter: Viet Vu (Pham Quang Trung)
Producers: Nguyen Quynh Trang
Viet Vu (Pham Quang Trung)
Director of Photography: Ha Hoang
Sound: Nguyen Kien Trung
Editing: Viet Vu (Pham Quang Trung)
Sound Editing: Arnaud Soulier

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Genre: Fiction/ Drama
Sub-genre: coming of age, suburban-themed movie, surrealist, gay
Language: Vietnamese
Country of origin: Vietnam
Year of production: 2018
Total running time: 27 minutes
Shooting format: HD
Color type: Color
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Sound format: Stereo sound