Trương Minh Quý

Born in Buôn Ma Thuột, a city in Vietnam's central highlands, Trương Minh Quý often sets and finds inspiration for his films in his hometown. His filmography includes The City of Mirrors: A Fictional Biography (2016), The Tree House (2019). In 2024, his film Việt and Nam was selected in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2025, his film, Hair, Paper, Water,…, co-directed with Nicolas Graux, won the Golden Leopard (Filmmakers of the Present) at the Locarno Film Festival.

At the Institute, Quý will research his next feature film, which explores the intricate nature of power, nostalgia, and history within a dispossessed, aristocratic Vietnamese family living in exile in the interwar years of the 20th century. This film continues his cinematic obsession with the question of home and homelessness. Making this film is an attempt to alleviate the burden of time in order to bring back the dead: dead people, dead places; or perhaps only to chase the illusion of doing so.