Filmmaking with a Queer Sensitivity

07:30 pm – 09:00, Sat 26 Apr 2025
Complex 01
Tây Sơn, Đống Đa, Hà Nội
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Languages: English and Vietnamese (bilingual)

From the organizer:

What does it mean to make films with a queer sensitivity? How do queer-led projects challenge conventional narratives, ethics, and power structures in filmmaking?

Filmmaking with a Queer Sensitivity is an open, conversational workshop where we will screen a selection of documentary and fiction shorts and hold an intimate discussion about queer filmmaking practices — both in Vietnam and internationally. With guest filmmakers Duy Anh, Luki Areal and Quang Nong, we’ll explore how queer stories are told, who gets to tell them, and what shifts when the storyteller is also part of the community being represented.

Together, we’ll reflect on the evolving ethics of representation, storytelling as care, and the radical potential of queer media. All are welcome to watch, listen, ask questions, and join the conversation.

About speakers:

Nguyen Duy Anh born in 1997, is a queer moving image artist based in Viet Nam. He graduated with a degree in Film Direction from a 4-year exchange program between the Hanoi Academy of Theatre & Cinema in Viet Nam and INSAS in Belgium. His work explores and questions the domination of larger systems to the expressive freedom of individuals in contemporary social contexts. As a director, screenwriter, producer, editor, and organizer, Nguyen Duy Anh has produced many different works, including fictional short films and documentaries, video installations, and music videos, which have been screened and exhibited at various venues and film festivals such as Singapore International Film Festival, Documenta fifteen, Bali International Short Film Festival, Kunsthalle TRAFO, daadgalerie and more. Since May 2022, Duy Anh joined Ba-bau Collective and had a long-time residency at Ba-bau.air, where he co-founded Hoa Quynh Cinema, an intimate cinema screening project/production with Cao Viet Nga. In 2023, Duy Anh won a Prince Claus Seed Award for his contribution in first five years as an artist.

Luki Areal-Coulombe (she/he/they) is a queer filmmaker originally from a mixed background in the Netherlands. They have worked in festival markets at IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam) and as the 2025 Ambassador for IFFR (International Film Festival Rotterdam). Through their work at film festivals, the reality that big festivals can be intimidating and isolating for first time independent filmmakers has become clear, even more so with cultural, economic, or linguistic barriers. This visit to Ha Noi is primarily to build connections with local filmmakers, with festival and filmmaking collaboration in focus. Creatively they are also documentarians, with recent professional attendance at Cannes and Ake Dikhea in Berlin, their documentaries explore the themes of Queer artistry and Romani feminism. Alongside documentary, making fiction short films is something they have been experimenting with. Already having exposure to Vietnamese cinema and culture through friendship and collaboration, they hope to meet with more filmmakers whilst residing at the AiRViNe in Ha Noi, being more than happy to answer any questions. Having worked as a producer for two documentaries and multiple short fiction projects, they understand what it means to be on both ends of the festival experience.

Fresh off the hill from Lao Cai to Hanoi, Quang has been learning documentary filmmaking by practicing. From programs at TPD and Hanoi DocLab, he continued with making short documentaries on queer experience, creative industry, youth culture and heritage. His first feature debut “Baby Jackfruit Baby Guava” is in production and has received support from numerous international film institutes, including Sundance, IDFA, Docs By The Sea, Vision Sud Est, SGIFF, DMZ and EIDF. Quang currently works as a program officer at doc cicada, a Vietnam documentary development initiative. In 2024, Quang founded duckymentary – a documentary production studio based in Hanoi. The studio recently collaborated with Runway Studio to experiment with using AI in documentary, and the film premiered at Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival in 2025.

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