Viet Film Fest

Santa Ana, CA – The Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association (VAALA) is excited to announce that tickets are now on sale for Viet Film Fest 2026. As the largest international Vietnamese film festival in the diaspora, Viet Film Fest 2026 will expand its in-person festival to four days, taking […] The post Viet Film Fest 2026 Announces This Y

Santa Ana, CA – Hội Văn Học Nghệ Thuật Việt Mỹ (VAALA) trân trọng thông báo lịch chiếuphim của Viet Film Fest, và vé đã bắt đầu bán. Là liên hoan phim quốc tế lớn nhất tại hải ngoạichú trọng đến các phim mang chủ đề về con người và […] The post Viet Film Fest 2026 công bố danh sách phim cùng các sự kiện đặcbiệt và mở bán vé appeared first on VAALA

Interviewee: Anna Fam-Rieskaniemi, director, Entropy (Entropia) Interviewer: Eric Nong, Viet Film Fest Artistic Director To what extent is Entropy indicative of the tensions you have personally felt between Polish and Vietnamese culture? Is it partially biographical?

Santa Ana, CA – ngày 2 tháng 2 năm 2026 — Hội Văn Học Nghệ Thuật Việt Mỹ (VietnameseAmerican Arts and Letters Association – VAALA) trân trọng thông báo thời gian chính thức mởliên hoan phim và ra thông báo tuyển phim cho Viet Film Fest 2026, đánh dấu 23 […] The post Viet Film Fest 2026 Đánh Dấu Năm Thứ 23 và Thông Cáo Tuyển Phim appeared first on V

Santa Ana, CA – February 2, 2026 — The Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association (VAALA) is proud to announce the official dates and Call for Entries for Viet Film Fest 2026, marking the festival’s 23rd year of celebrating Vietnamese storytelling and culture in film. The festival will feature three […] The post Viet Film Fest 2026 Returns fo

Santa Ana, CA (October 20, 2025) – Viet Film Fest 2025, presented by the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association (VAALA), proudly concludes its 16th edition, celebrating the creativity, diversity, and global reach of Vietnamese cinema. Founded in 2003, Viet Film Fest is the largest international Vietnamese film festival in […] The post Vie

In this exclusive interview, Trịnh Đình Lê Minh, director of Once Upon a Love Story, shares his meditations on homecoming, love, and the temporal and spatial dimensions of the film. He also articulates his strategies for collaborating with the crew, adapting the original novel for the screen, and keeping a balance […] The post Interview wtih Trịnh

State of Statelessness is an anthology film consisting of four short films made by Tibetan filmmakers living in exile. It is a collective effort of exploring the themes of statelessness and migration embedded within everyday life of the Tibetan diaspora.

In this interview, Thi Dang An Tran, director of Xanh, outlines both her career’s journey from theater to animation filmmaking and her personal experiences as a member of the Vietnamese diaspora in Germany. Drawing inspiration from true events that took place in her father’s restaurant, she explains how animation aesthetics […] The post Interview w

Director and writer Mandy Krahn, in this interview, reflects on the personal and cultural roots that shaped her latest short film, Today Is My Day Off (Von 0 auf 180) – a quiet, intimate portrait of a father-daughter relationship and intergenerational understanding, set in motion by the closing of the […] The post Interview with Mandy Krahn, direct