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Vietnam’s First Ho Chi Minh City Int’l Film Festival Wraps With Prizes For ‘The Gospel Of The Beast’, ‘Last Shadow At First Light’


Inaugural edition of Vietnamese festival included competition sections for Southeast Asian films, First and Second features and short films.

Oasis Of Now, directed by Malaysia’s Chee Sum Chia, took awards for best director and best actress for Vietnam’s Tạ Thị Dịu, who plays an immigrant in the film. Indonesian action drama 13 Bombs was awarded with best sound design (Wahyu Tri Pournomo) and best editing (Hendra Adhi Sussanto). Cambodian drama Tenement won best production design (Jean-Sien Kin) while Japan-Philippines co-production Blue Imagine took best original score (Yuji Wantanabe).

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