Choi voi is a 2009 Vietnamese film directed by Bui Thac Chuyen and stars Linh Dan Pham

Linh Dan Pham

Linh Dan Pham is a French actress.She was born in Saigon, South Vietnam, but moved with her family to France a year later just before the fall of Saigon to North Vietnamese and Viet Cong's forces and grew up in Paris...

, Do Thi Hai Yen

Do Thi Hai Yen

Do Thi Hai Yen is a Vietnamese actress. She grew up in Hanoi and graduated from the Vietnamese Ballet School after seven years of study.-Biography:...

, Johnny Tri Nguyen

Johnny Tri Nguyen

Johnny Tri Nguyen is a Vietnamese American film and television actor, stunt double, and martial artist. He left Vietnam at the age of 8 with his mother, father, elder brother, and elder sister and moved to Los Angeles, CA. He is half Vietnamese and half Chinese, with his mother being...

 and Nguyen Duy Khoa. Hai Yen plays Duyen, a young tourist guide who married Hai (Duy Khoa), a taxi driver but still has feeling with her girlfriend Cam (Linh Dan), a writer. The film deals with some issues in modern Vietnam society such as homosexuality

Homosexuality

Homosexuality is romantic or sexual attraction or behavior between members of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality refers to "an enduring pattern of or disposition to experience sexual, affectional, or romantic attractions" primarily or exclusively to people of the same...

 or the loneliness thought of young generation. This is a co-production between Feature Film Studio n°1 (Vietnam

Vietnam

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) and Acrobates Films (France

France

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).

After finishing, Choi voi was chosen to participate in some film festival

Film festival

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 like Venice Film Festival

Venice Film Festival

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, Toronto International Film Festival

Toronto International Film Festival

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 or Bangkok International Film Festival

Bangkok International Film Festival

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. At the 66th Venice International Film Festival

66th Venice International Film Festival

The 66th annual Venice Film Festival held in Venice, Italy, was opened on September 2, 2009 by Baarìa - La porta del vento. International competition jury, led by Ang Lee, awarded Leone d'Oro to Lebanon...

, FIPRESCI

FIPRESCI

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 awarded Choi voi with its prize for young directors and cinemas.

Plot

Choi voi tells the story of newlyweds Hai and Duyen. Duyen is a beautiful tourist guide, she decided to get married with Hai, a taxi driver who is two years younger than her. Duyen thinks the wedding would make her happy but it turns out more difficult, especially when Duyen realises the feeling she has with Cam, her close girlfriend. As a writer, Cam also keeps a complicated and unhappy relation with Tho, a man charged with sexual desire. The accidental meeting between Duyen and Tho uncovers the voids in the young woman and marks the beginning of a series of problems involving feelings of all that young characters.

Cast

• Do Thi Hai Yen
  Do Thi Hai Yen
  Do Thi Hai Yen is a Vietnamese actress. She grew up in Hanoi and graduated from the Vietnamese Ballet School after seven years of study.-Biography:...
  
   as Duyen (Duyên)
• Linh Dan Pham
  Linh Dan Pham
  Linh Dan Pham is a French actress.She was born in Saigon, South Vietnam, but moved with her family to France a year later just before the fall of Saigon to North Vietnamese and Viet Cong's forces and grew up in Paris...
  
   as Cam (Cầm)
• Johnny Tri Nguyen
  Johnny Tri Nguyen
  Johnny Tri Nguyen is a Vietnamese American film and television actor, stunt double, and martial artist. He left Vietnam at the age of 8 with his mother, father, elder brother, and elder sister and moved to Los Angeles, CA. He is half Vietnamese and half Chinese, with his mother being...
  
   as Tho (Thổ)
• Nguyen Duy Khoa as Hai (Hải)