Once Upon A Love Story

31/10/2024 - quanly

Feature Film/ Viet Nam/ 135 min/ 2024

Director: Trịnh Đình Lê Minh

Screenwriter: Nhi Bùi, Đỗ Hoa Trà

Director of Photography: Nguyễn Trinh Hoan

Production: Nguyễn Trinh Hoan, Phan Gia Nhật Linh, Nhi Bùi

Music Composer: Chapavich Temnitikul

Production designer: Đặng Ngọc Thanh Tú

Cast: Avin Lu, Ngọc Xuân, Đỗ Nhật Hoàng, Thanh Tú, Bảo Tiên, Hạo Khang

Synopsis:

Vinh and Phuc are best friends. Knowing that Vinh likes Mien, their classmate, Phuc urges him to speak out. But due to a timid nature, Vinh chooses to wait quietly for his seed of love to germinate. When Phuc decides to help Vinh speak to Mien, he also realizes that his heart and Mien’s seem to share the same beat. After the innocence of their younger years passes, Vinh, Phuc and Mien enter life and face the irony of fate. The story between them also grows, and all three will have to face their choices in the name of love and happiness.

Director’s biography:

Trinh Dinh Le Minh is a Vietnamese filmmaker. His debut feature, Goodbye Mother, has won several awards, such as Best Narrative Feature Film Jury Award at the 2020 Reeling Film Festival and Audience Awards at the 2020 Toronto Reel Asian and Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival. His second feature, Invisible Evidence, has been sold to more than 10 Asian countries and won him the Best Director Award at the 2021 Vietnam Film Festival.