Tony Bùi: Three Seasons [OmeU] Vietnam 1999, R: Tony Bùi mit Đơn Dương, Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Hiệp, Diep Bui, Huu Duoc Nguyen, Diễm Kiều, Harvey Keitel, 109 Min

Director: Tony Bui is a Sundance award-winning writer, director, and producer.

Three Seasons is a visually stunning and poetic masterpiece that offers a rare, tender, and deeply human perspective on modern Vietnam.

The film won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival for a reason.

It features gorgeous visuals—from mist-covered lotus lakes to rain-soaked neon alleyways—that capture the heart and soul of Ho Chi Minh City.

A New Perspective on Vietnam: Unlike typical war films, it avoids battle scenes to focus on the human aftermath and the quiet strength of everyday Vietnamese people moving forward. It beautifully highlights the struggles between retaining old traditions and embracing rapid wealth and modernization.

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His short film Yellow Lotus was the first Vietnamese-language film to screen at the Sundance Film Festival, received more than 15 national & international festival awards. In 2025, Tony curated Legacies of War: Vietnam Across the Divides for the Criterion Channel, a program of American & Vietnamese war films marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.

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