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Impermanent Residents

Thang and Dinh Dinh, a young husband and wife, are about to leave for Winnipeg, Canada. With only a few hours left until departure, Dinh Dinh kindly agrees to babysit the neighbor's newborn baby. Shortly after that, Thang figures out that the baby had died... On a fateful afternoon, a thrilling and heart-pounding incident occurs at an old apartment. Thang and Dinh Dinh must race to hide the baby's body and find the culprit who has led them to this predicament.

  • Tuan Huu Nguyen
    Director
    Of us and June, My Son where are you.
  • Nima Javidi
    Writer
    Melbourne, The Warden, Actor
  • Tuan Huu Nguyen
    Writer
    Of us and June
  • Vinh The Truong
    Writer
  • Khoa Dang Tran
    Producer
  • Vinh The Truong
    Key Cast
  • Bich Huu Luong
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    An Mang Lau 4
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 46 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    May 15, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    Vietnam
  • Country of Filming:
    Vietnam
  • Language:
    Vietnamese, Yue Chinese (Cantonese)
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.39:1 Scope
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Domestic release

    Viet Nam
    May 17, 2024
    World Premiere
  • Hill Film Festival
    Rangamati
    Bangladesh
    December 27, 2024
    Asian Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Buenos Aires International Film Festival
    Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    Official Selection
  • Moscow International Film Festival
    Moscow
    Russian Federation
    April 20, 2025
    European Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Da Nang Asian Film Festival
    Danang
    Viet Nam
    June 30, 2025
Distribution Information
  • Skyline Media Co., LTD
    Sales Agent
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Tuan Huu Nguyen

Director/writer/producer Huu-Tuan Nguyen is a member of Vietnam Cinema Association. Nguyen is the first filmmaker of 1980s generation to release a feature film, Of Us And June (2012). This basketball movie was a rare indie film at that time and was awarded the Jury Prize at the 18th Vietnam Film Festival in 2013. His second film, My Son, Where Are You? is a family movie that was released in December 2018. At Asian Film Market 2019, Nguyen and his psychological thriller project The Girl Who Sings In The Dreams was introduced at Link of Cine-Asia, an event organized by Busan Film Commission. In 2021, the screenplay was also selected as a Quarterfinalist of Blue Cat Screenplay Competition, a top screenwriting competition in the USA.

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Director Statement

I had the chance of seeing Melbourne in Hanoi International Film Festival. That was 2014 if my memory does not deceive me. Among the 20 films I watched in the Festival that year, Melbourne is no doubt, the most impressive. And that impression lasts so long that I have forgot all of the others but never Melbourne. It is such a shame that Melbourne is not widely known by the Vietnamese audiences. A Vietnamese remake will be the opportunity for this amazing story and its characters to shine once again in another corner of Asia. It is an unlikely remake, but I am sure that Vietnamese and international movie-goers will be thrilled, and at the same time, be deeply moved by Impermanent Residents. After I received the original screenplay from Mr. Javidi, I can only be more and more appreciate on how thoughtful he was when he crafted the story in the first place. A simple story, yet says so much from ambitious discourses about the society and its morality to a smaller, more intimate matter such as love. To adapt it from an Islamic context to a Southeast Asian one such as Vietnam, of course I have to alter quite a few bits to make it become more fit into our culture and lifestyle. However I have tried my best to maintain the humane spirit of the original film. Overall, my most prideful achievement in Impermanent Residents is that I have been able to develop the character of the wife to be a completely different woman from the passive Islamic wife in Melbourne, and yet she is still a woman with the same heart so full of loving and caring.