Photos: WEAI, New York Asian Film Festival Put 'Vietnam on Screen'
Starry NYAFF 2025 panel showcases some of the leading voices in contemporary Vietnamese cinema.
NEW YORK CITY, July 24, 2025 — The Weatherhead East Asian Institute celebrated Vietnam Day at the 2025 New York Asian Film Festival with its artist-in-residence, filmmaker Tony Bui, moderating an onstage conversation among some of the leading voices in contemporary Vietnamese cinema.
In "Vietnam on Screen: Generations in Dialogue," held inside Film at Lincoln Center's Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, Bui led actors Kiều Chinh, Việt Hương, Nguyễn Lâm Thảo Tâm, and Công Dương, and director/producer Catherine T. Nguyen in an absorbing talk that explored how on-screen narratives of Vietnam have evolved over decades.
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Following the panel discussion, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute hosted a reception at the Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery, inside Film at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater, with opening remarks by Ambassador Đỗ Hùng Việt, Viet Nam's newly appointed Permanent Representative to the United Nations (below).
A screening of Vietnamese director Ash Mayfair's new feature Skin of Youth followed the reception.
