Thế Giới
2025 · 7m · Vietnam
Directed by Anh Phi Trần
Genres: documentary, musical
Tones: provocative, tense, whimsical
A commissioned short documentary capturing the maximalist energy of two Saigon-based queer collectives — Gái Nhảy and Bung Lon — accelerating queer visibility in Vietnam.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Trần finds the pulse of Saigon's underground queer scene and holds it for seven minutes without blinking.
Boiler Room/Absolut commission of Saigon queer collectives — branded origin is a yellow flag, but seven minutes channeling genuine club ethnography could transcend the corporate sponsor. Cautiously curious.
A Boiler Room / Absolut commission that transcends its branded origins to do genuinely ethnographic work on Saigon's underground queer collectives — Paris Is Burning is heavy but the impulse is correct. Seven minutes of maximalist energy with a real eye behind it.