Director | Ngọc Duy Lê
Script | Ngọc Duy Lê
Director of photography| Wan Ping Looi
Editing | Ngọc Duy Le
Sound designers | Sigon Sound Production, Vu Thanh Long
Main cast | Tran The Manh, Nguyen Le Son
Production company | Phan Nguyet Minh Nguyen, Wan Ping Looi
On Da Nang’s peninsula, where echoes of war linger, a gay tourist couple searches for a forgotten Vietnamese soldier’s grave, shadowed by a mysterious skate crew carving their paths.
About the director:
Born in 2000 in Da Nang, Le Ngoc Duy is a filmmaker exploring the politics of memory, history, queer expression, and Central Vietnamese heritage. His recent works examine the influence of official narratives in shaping collective memory and the dominant influence of larger systems on the construction of history.
“”Before the Sea Forgets,”” his latest short film, was an official selection in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight 2025 and a Queer Palm nominee. He is one of the Prince Claus Fund’s Seed Awardees 2025 and a Locarno Filmmakers Academy 2025 participant. In 2024, he received a production grant from the CJ Short Filmmaking Project in Vietnam.
As a member of A Sông Art Collective, Duy also organizes and co-curates Cinema of Peasants (Cinema CNN), a grassroots project promoting local independent cinema.