Like The Moon In a Night Sky

Like The Moon In a Night Sky is a series of festival-like initiatives that explore multiple dimensions of Vietnamese cinema past, present, and future.

Initiated in 2020 by TPD (with the inaugural edition taking place in June-July the same year), the project’s second edition was set in Ho Chi Minh City in April 2021. Edition 3 will return to Hanoi, with a thematic focus on this city itself.

“Travelling into Film is not unlike travelling into the Night. Watching a film in the dark is a lonely experience amongst lonely people. Privacy within the communal. A light emanating from the screen streaming down to and amongst viewers. Eras, moments, terrains, cities, the faces that we seek to lose ourselves in, as we’ve often done. The rhythms that transform our real-life rhythms. Like the night never gets old, the moon that could never be really captured, the films that were, are and will be, exist across multiple lives, before and in the fresh eyes of generations of audiences. Each spectator, themselves, is cinematic history.” – Trương Quế Chi (project convenor)