Phạm Nhuệ Giang

Directing

Phạm Nhuệ Giang

Born

1957-12-19 (68)

Place of birth

Hanoi, Vietnam

Known for

Directing

Credits

8 titles

People’s Artist Phạm Nhuệ Giang (born 19th December 1957 in Hanoi) is a Vietnamese director and screenwriter. Youngest daughter of the famed director Phạm Văn Khoa, she is classically trained in piano and worked briefly as a construction engineer prior to enrolling at Hanoi National Academy for Theatre and Cinema in 1983. Upon graduation, she started working for Vietnam Feature Film Studio in 1983 as a producer and assistant director to Đặng Nhật Minh and her husband Nguyễn Thanh Vân. In 1996, she made her debut feature, “Bỏ trốn”(Runaway), and earned several accolades at local awards. Her next film in 2001, “Thung lũng hoang vắng”(The deserted valley) was a widespread hit; despite initial o…

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

The Deserted Valley poster
5.5

Three teachers run together an elementary school for local Hmong children in a remote mountain village. One day, an incident turns their life upside down, revealing the secrets and feelings they have been hiding for a long time.

The Deserted Valley

2002

Aimless poster
2.0

Leaving their village to earn a living in the big city, Tham and Quy's relationship soon suffers in the face of impoverished conditions.

Aimless

2013

Aimless poster
2.0

Leaving their village to earn a living in the big city, Tham and Quy's relationship soon suffers in the face of impoverished conditions.

Aimless

2013

Runaway poster
NR

After Thi's mother died, her father was unable to raise her, so she lived with her aunt-in-law and grandmother. Thi's grandmother left her a ring when she died. While packing her things, Mrs. Mai discovered it and scolded Thi, causing her to run away from home.

Runaway

1996

Runaway poster
NR

After Thi's mother died, her father was unable to raise her, so she lived with her aunt-in-law and grandmother. Thi's grandmother left her a ring when she died. While packing her things, Mrs. Mai discovered it and scolded Thi, causing her to run away from home.

Runaway

1996

The Mother's Soul poster
1.0

Thu lives in a village near the river with Lan, her single mother working as a fruit seller. Thu befriends a boy in the village, Đăng, who lost his mother at a young age and is thus mainly raised by his grandparents. As the two children bond, they find in each other the parental figures they have been longing for.

The Mother's Soul

2011

The Mother's Soul poster
1.0

Thu lives in a village near the river with Lan, her single mother working as a fruit seller. Thu befriends a boy in the village, Đăng, who lost his mother at a young age and is thus mainly raised by his grandparents. As the two children bond, they find in each other the parental figures they have been longing for.

The Mother's Soul

2011