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"The Third Wife" grabs second international award

Vietnamese movie Nguoi Vo Ba (The Third Wife) has received the RTVE - Another Look Award at the 66th San Sebastian International Film Festival.
"The Third Wife" grabs second international award ảnh 1"The Third Wife" won its second international award at the 66th San Sebastian International Film Festival (Photo: toquoc.vn)

Hanoi (VNS/VNA) -Vietnamese movie Nguoi Vo Ba (TheThird Wife) has received the RTVE - Another Look Award at the 66th SanSebastian International Film Festival.

The Another Look Award by theSpanish Radio and Television Corporation aims to reward cinema focusing onfemale stories; directed, starring or written by women, or by men whose films showparticular sensitivity towards the world in question.

A jury specially created for theRTVE - Another Look Award selected NguoiVo Ba, one of the films presented at the New Directors category in SanSebastian International Film Festival held on September 29. This award consistsof acquiring the right to broadcast the film on television for the generalpublic.

The movie which is the firstmotion picture by director Phuong Anh, also won the Network for the Promotionof Asian Cinema (NETPAC) award for the best Asian film at the TorontoInternational Film Festival last month.

"I wish to thank all womenin my life and all female artists that came before me for lighting the torchthat guides us," the director wrote on her Facebook page. "To allwomen filmmakers, today I wish to dedicate this award to all of you".

In 19th century rural Vietnam, a14-year-old girl becomes the third wife of a wealthy landowner. Soon she learnsthat she can only gain status by giving birth to a baby boy.

Her hope to change her statusturns into a real and tantalising possibility when she falls pregnant. Facedwith forbidden love and its devastating consequences, she finally comes to anunderstanding of the brutal truth: the options available to her are few and farbetween.

Born in Vietnam and educated inthe UK and the US, Phuong Anh received a Master of Fine Arts in film-makingfrom the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She has directed numerous plays andshort films in the UK and the US. She has worked at the National Theatre inLondon as an assistant director, and in off-Broadway productions as a director.

Her short films The SilverMan, Sam, Heart of a Doll, Grasshopper, Lupo, Walking the Dead and No Exit have been screened at multipleinternational festivals. The screenplay for TheThird Wife was a recipient of the Spike Lee Film Production Fundaward in 2014 and part of the IFP Narrative Lab 2017 in New York.

The Third Wife will have its Asian premiere at theA Window on Asian Cinema programme at the Busan International Film Festivalthat will be held on October 4-13.-VNS/VNA
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