Lê Bảo
Lê Bảo was born in 1990. His interest in cinema began when he was a little boy looking through the small window of his house that sits by the river in the slums of Saigon. A self-trained cinephile, he learnt about cinema through watching foreign films on his computer and made his first short film when he was 20 years old, borrowing an old camera from a friend. His short films Coal and Scent were shot in the underdeveloped areas where he grew up. Taste, his first feature, is also shot with non-professional actors in the places he has known all his life.
The Sea is Calm Tonight
- ARRI Award, Asian Project Market, Busan International Film Festival
- MPA APSA Academy Film Fund, Asia Pacific Screen Awards
- Hubert Bals Fund Script Development Grant, International Film Festival Rotterdam
- QPM-SEA Co-Production Grant, QCinema Project Market, QCinema International Film Festival
- CMB Discovery Award, QCinema Project Market, QCinema International Film Festival
- Central Digital Lab Color Grading Award, QCinema Project Market, QCinema International Film Festival
- Caméra Libre!, Cité internationale des arts and centre national du cinema et de l’image animée
At sea, Vietnamese boat people of 40 years past have a miraculous meeting with Rohingya refugees of the present in their extraordinary parallel journeys to find peace.
- Written & Directed by
- Lê Bảo
- Producer
- Lai Weijie
- Co-Producers
- Marie Dubas, Elizabeth Wijaya, Sheron Dayoc
Taste
- Special Jury Award, Encounters Competition, Berlinale Film Festival
- Grand Prize, Taipei Film Festival
- Wild Dreamer Award for Best Feature Film, Subversive Film Festival
- Special Mention, Prix De L'innovation Daniel Langlois, Festival du nouveau cinéma
- APSA Young Cinema Award, Asia Pacific Screen Awards
- Winner, Achievement in Cinematography, Asia Pacific Screen Awards
- Golden Hanoman Award, Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival
- NETPAC Award, Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival
- Student Jury Award, Blue Danube Film Festival
- Jury Prize, Festival International de Cinéma Asiatique de Tours
Bassley, a Nigerian footballer living in Vietnam, has been unable to make a living since he broke his leg. He and four middle-aged women he sometimes works for decide to escape the disappointment of their daily lives. They go to an old house where together they create a special world for themselves.
But this intimate utopia cannot last forever...
- Written & Directed by
- Lê Bảo
- Executive Producer
- Chayamporn Taeratanachai
- Producers
- Lai Weijie, Đồng Thị Phương Thảo
- Co-Producers
- Marie Dubas, Jean Des Forêts, Markus Aldenhoven, Reik Möller
- Associate Producers
- Shih Chin Hang, Elizabeth Wijaya, Amélie Jacquis
- Director of Photography
- Nguyễn Vinh Phúc
- Production Designer
- Le Van Thanh
- Editor
- Lee Chatametikool
- Sound Designer
- Vincent Villa
Unconsoled
- Commission, Astro A-List
- Official Selection, Thai Short Film & Video Festival
In a distant land, beneath the surface, lies a small wooden house with a coat of blue sand covering the floor. A mother and her daughter live here with a stallion - growing old and reflecting on the melancholy of the family’s past and its absent members.
- Written & Directed by
- Lê Bảo
- Executive Producer
- Teng Lee Yein
- Producers
- Ho Hock Doong, Đồng Thị Phương Thảo
- Co-Producers
- Lai Weijie, Marie Dubas
- Director of Photography
- Tran Ngoc Khuyen
- Production Designer
- Le Van Thanh, Ngo Thuy Duyen
- Editor
- Nguyen Le Hoang Phuc
- Sound Designer
- Vincent Villa