The film won the 2017 Golden Kite Awards for feature movie and the Best Costume award at the 58th Asia Pacific Film Festival. The 90-minute romantic comedy film produced by movie star, director and producer Ngo Thanh Van is about Vietnamese women living in Saigon (now HCM City) in the 1960s. The movie features the culture and lifestyle of Saigonese as well as the history of ao dai (traditional Vietnamese long dress).
The Tailor will be screened in California on October 20.
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Another picture by producer Ngo Thanh Van, Song Lang, a drama about cai luong (reformed opera), a genre of traditional theatre in the South is nominated in the “Asian Future” at the 31st Tokyo International Film Festival which will take place on October 25-31.
The movie will also make its premiere at the Opening International Premiere in the festival.
The two films will participate in the 5th Hanoi International Film Festival (HANIFF) 2018 that is scheduled to take place from October 27-31.
