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Hồng Anh Nguyễn is a queer German-Vietnamese writer, director, and editor currently based in Frankfurt am Main and Ho Chi Minh City. Her work focuses on exploring the tension, tenderness and intimacy inherent in encounters between people, often strangers.
Her latest short film Saigon Kiss, a co-production between Vietnam, Germany, and Australia, was supported by the Asia-Europe Foundation and the Goethe-Institut Ho Chi Minh City. It premiered at the Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival and screened in the international competition at the 46th Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, where it received a Special Mention by the Queer Jury. The film earned further recognition with winning The Saxon Film Prize at the Filmfest Dresden - the festival's highest endowed award, the Jury Award Prize at Chéries-Chéris in Paris and a Special Mention Award at the New Orleans International Film Festival. It also screened at prominent festivals such as BFI Flare, Palm Springs ShortFest, and Interfilm Berlin. The film is currently available on ARTE.
Hồng Anh directed documentaries for EST Eastern Standard Times, highlighting the voices of modern Vietnamese women.
Her work includes GAP | GẶP, a queer digital dance duet commissioned by the British Council Vietnam, and her first poetry publication, [khát], funded by the Goethe Institute. She was recently nominated for the Hanoi Grapevine Finest Artists award.
Hồng Anh is a is an alumna of the Torino Film Lab, a recipient of the STEP writers' stipend from Hessen Film & Media and a fellow of the Kyoto Filmmakers Lab 2022. She holds a BA (hons) in Theatre and Film from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh.
She is developing her debut feature SCHÖNGEIST (eng.: Mouth Of A Shark), with script funding from Hessen Film & Media. The project was recently selected for TorinoFilmLab Next – Feature Film.