Biography
Trương Minh Quý (Vietnam, 1990) creates films at the intersection of documentary and fiction. He graduated from Le Fresnoy, National Studio of Contemporary Arts in France, in 2021. His narratives and images balance the personal and the impersonal and draw on the landscape of his homeland, childhood memories, and the history of Vietnam. His films have been selected for international film festivals and exhibitions such as Cannes, Berlinale, Locarno, IFFR and the New York Film Festival. Việt and Nam (2024) premiered at Cannes and was selected for Un Certain Regard. His latest film Tóc, Giấy và Nước… [Hair, Paper, Water…] (2025), a sensorial and poetic documentary co-directed with Nicolas Graux, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, where it won, among other prizes, the Golden Leopard in the Filmmakers of the Present competition.