SPRING ROLL DREAM WINS AT CANNES
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PHOTOS Jean Picon and Valentin Le Cron
PHOTOS Jean Picon and Valentin Le Cron
Spring Roll Dream, shot by our cinematographer Martyna Jakimowska, received the Lights On Women award at Cannes Film Festival. Hollywood actress Kate Winslet presented the award and a cash prize to the director Mai Vu.
Viguier-Hovasse, a representative of the award's sponsor, emphasised that the short animation genre signifies the future of the film industry. The aim is to inspire women filmmakers to express their creativity and bridge the funding gap, which contributes to the higher number of men in the film industry.
The nine-minute animated film is one of Martyna's projects from the NFTS in Britain.
The short explores the family dynamic of a three-generation household. Linh is a Vietnamese single mother who’s built a stable life for herself and her son in the US, but her life balance is thrown off when her father visits from Vietnam and insists on making gỏi cuốn for her son. When this seemingly innocuous conflict arises, “Linh is confronted with the past and culture she left behind and the question of where it belongs in her family’s new life,” the short synopsis reads.
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MARCH 05, 2024
The film was nominated in the La Cinef category. Out of 1,528 submissions, only 16 were nominated. It also won 11 awards worldwide, including at Denver IFF and San Francisco FF.
Swedish director Ruben Ostlund's class warfare comedy 'Triangle of Sadness’ won the Palme d'Or.
STILL FRAME Spring Roll Dream, UK, 2022