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DON’T CRY, BUTTERFLY
MU’A TRÊN CANH BUOM

• Director: Duong Diêu Linh 
• VIETNAM, SINGAPORE, PHILIPPINES, INDONESIA / 2024 / DCP / Colour / 97’ / Vietnamese; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Duong Diêu Linh 
• Director of Photography: Ngô Minh Nghia
• Editing: Daniel Hui
• Music: Diego Ayala Raffalli
• Cast: Lê Tú Oanh, Nguyen Nam Linh, Lê Vũ Long, Bùi Thac Phong
• Producer: Tan Si En, Wilfredo C. Manalang, Nguyen Mai Ka
• Production Co.: Momo Film Co, Adeline Arts & Science, Fusee, Potato Productions, KawanKawan Media, Pupa Films, Kalei Films
• World Sales: Barunson E&A

2024 Venice Iwonderful Grand Prize, Verona Most Innovative Film
2024 QCinema (Philippines) Grand Jury Prize

Uniquely marrying comedy and supernatural horror, Don’t Cry Butterfly tackles men’s infidelity, womanhood, family relations, and cultural traditions. The film follows a housewife, who hires a powerful spell master to try and get her cheating husband fall back into love with her, but instead a mysterious presence seeps into the house. Her home is no longer a place to be healed through feng shui or witchcraft, but a place to either leave or forever change. Premiering at Venice Film Festival’s Critics’ Week section, the feature film directorial debut of Duong Dieu Linh follows her award-winning short film series about middle-aged women.

* In accordance with Article 7 of the Law No. 5224 amended on 18.01.2019, cinema films that have not been reviewed and classified can only be screened in festivals, special screenings and similar cultural and artistic events with an 18+ age restriction.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.