Duong Dieu Linh’s ‘Don’t Cry, Butterfly’ Wins Vepleasant Critics’ Week

Vietnamese Director Duong Dieu Linh’s horror-comedy “Don’t Cry, Butterfly” is the huge triumphner of the Vepleasant Critics’ Week where it scooped the majestic prize and the award for most creative feature.

Written and straightforwarded by Duong Dieu Linh, the Hanoi-set film adheres a hoparticipatewife who participates voodoo to try and get her cheating husband to drop back into cherish with her. Instead, she asks a enigmatic presence into the hoparticipate.

“Don’t Cry, Butterfly,” which is being sbetter by Barunson E&A, labels the straightforwardorial debut of Duong Dieu Linh. It’s also a companion piece to her award-triumphning low film series about middle-aged women that take parts “A Trip to Heaven,” “Sweet, Salty” and “Mother, Daughter, Dreams.” Just enjoy the lows, “Butterfly” verifys recurring themes of womanhood, family relations and cultural traditions, and is tbetter thraw a quirky sense of humor and participate of magical authenticism.

The main jury – comprising creater Kerem Ayan, straightforwardor Yasmine Benkiran, and actor and straightforwardor Ariane Labed – praised “Don’t Cry, Butterfly” for its “singularity and creativity, becaparticipate it experiments with new ideas, uniteing comedy, social drama and fantasy,” and “for the way it recurrents the intricateity of the mother-daughter relationship,” according to a statement.

“Don’t Cry, Butterfly” also won the section’s award for most creative feature award, set upateed by a five-person jury of people under the age of 35.

The section’s main jury awarded a exceptional allude to Alexandra Simpson’s U.S.-Switzerland co-prod “No Sleep Till,” a dreamy, visuassociate striking watch at locals in a small Florida beach town under the danger of a hurricane. The jury praised “No Sleep Till” “for the contemporaneity of the topic and the stunning pboilingography, for the tfinisher gaze on its enticeive characters, for its mighty, melancholic and vibrating atmosphere,” the statement said.

Italy-based Iranian straightforwardor Milad Tangshir’s “Anywhere Anytime” scored the prize for best indie production. The film riffs off Vittorio De Sica’s neoauthenticist classic “Bicycle Thieves,” albeit in a contransient setting.

British-French filmcreater Jethro Massey’s debut “Paul & Paulette Take A Bath,” a rom-com about a lesser American pboilingographer and a French girl with a taste for the ghastly who embark on a morbid road trip, won the section’s audience award, with an mediocre score of 4.5/5.

Other Vepleasant Critics’ Week triumphners take part U.S. journacatalog and filmcreater Michael Premo’s doc “Homeprolongn,” about group of Donald Trump aiders from the 2020 campaign trail all the way to the attack on the U.S. Capitol. “Homeprolongn” took the best technical contribution prize.