Trần Anh Hùng

Trần Anh-Hùng (b. 1962, lives and works in Paris, France) is a French filmmaker of Vietnamese descent. After the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, he immigrated to France at the age of 12. He studied philosophy at a university in France. By chance, he saw Robert Bresson's film A Man on the Run and decided to study film instead. He then studied cinematography at the Louis Lumière Academy.

 

Hùng has been at the forefront of a wave of acclaimed overseas Vietnamese cinema over the past two decades. His films have received international recognition and acclaim, including an Oscar-nominated debut (for Best Foreign Film) with The Scent of Green Papaya (1993), which also won two top prizes at the 46th Cannes Film Festival (1993). His follow-up, Cyclo (1995), starring Hong Kong film star Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Recently, he returned in a French production, La Passion de Dodin Bouffant (The Taste of Things) in 2023, which won him the Best Director award at the 76th Cannes Film Festival.