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The Cloud Is Gone

A married man remembers moments related to his lost wife in some familiar local places in the countryside of Vietnam. Witnessing the inevitable change of the city racing to develop, he bitterly thought about the important moment that he had missed.

  • Nguyen Viet Anh
    Director
  • Nguyen Viet Anh
    Writer
  • Mai Phuong Ngo
    Producer
  • Thanh Tung Huu
    Key Cast
  • Thu Thuy Thi Nguyen
    Key Cast
  • Minh Tien Nguyen
    Director of Photography
  • Duy Anh Nguyen
    Art Director
  • Nguyen Viet Anh
    Editor
  • Le Dong Nam Pham
    Sound Designer
  • Van H. Pham
    Colorist
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Đám mây bay mất
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    21 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    October 15, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    Viet Nam
  • Country of Filming:
    Viet Nam
  • Language:
    Vietnamese
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    5:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Nguyen Viet Anh

Nguyen Viet Anh is a filmmaker based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He is a Vietnamese filmmaker with a background in mass communication and worked as a director and writer for short films, commercials, and music videos at the beginning of his career path for four years.

In 2020, his first short film, titled Rừng (The Forest - 2020), was selected and participated in some film festivals in the Philippines, Thailand (ITFF), Northern Ireland, and France (CIFF). In 2022, he was chosen to a Bucheon Fantastic Film School. In 2023, he is pursuing his study in Toronto, Canada, for a higher level of Writing and Directing to develop his first feature film. He has also completed the second short film "The cloud is gone,” released in 2022.

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Director Statement

This short film is based on my childhood memories and is a dream that flows back from the present to the past, where an urban story contains the minutiae of people's emotional lives that can be reflected through the city's changing.

In my vision of the film, I want to see the story flow gently, slowly, sometimes pleasant, and occasionally bitter sarcasm when I see that people's love and memories are not entirely intact in the face of urbanization. In the film, fragments of a man's memories of his wife are recalled back, but they are all things that cannot be returned, cannot be seen, or revisited with the original appearance. That seems to be an inevitable miss that people will encounter in this changing country.

In the film, the cloud is mentioned as a metaphor for something vaguely in the past, something invisible. Still, one can easily feel its familiarity and feel nostalgic: "Sorry, I seem to have missed something important."