PANDA MEDIA
KOAN OF SPRING - 75 mn - HD4K - 2014 - Production : Panda Media (Korea) /11 décembre / Big Nose / Sesama Production / SAPA MEDIA JSC (Vietnam) - Release in theater : January 2016.
A Zen fable on the beauty inside, the simplicity, the sincerity.
SYNOPSIS :
Master Truong, the old Fearless of the emperor, is nearing the end of his life and he has not yet found his successor. The country has to be prepared for war and the Emperor is furiously impatient. He gives him two weeks to find it. Master Truong goes to visit a famous General (Master Wing) who had disappeared to become a simple fisherman. He lives with his two son (Tin and Tan) and her daughter (Lan, with a disfigured face) on the shores of the Lake Ba Bê. Master Truong knows very well the legend of the lake but this time he will really understand its meaning. Master Truong tells to master Wing he wants to test his two sons. People talked him a lot about their quality. Disappointed by their results, he tests also Lan.
Casting : Jim Adhi Limas, Tapa Sudana, Fang-Hsuan Chiu, Chau Belle Dinh, Santi Sudaros, Patrick Vô, Jean-Claude Tran, Tenzin Kunchap, Michel Chapuis...,
Director : Lou Ma Ho
First assistant Director : Guillaume Montely
Screenplay : Lou Ma Ho
Director photography : Olvier Cohen-Bacri
Music : Hyun-Jung Shim
Decorator : Suzanne Lee
AWARDS
Silver Remi Award - 47th Annual WorldFest-Houston (USA – April 2014)
Best Foreign Film - NIAFFS - International Action Film Festival (Spain - Oct 2014)
Best Photography - Festival International de Ciné de Fusagasugà (Colombia - Aug 2014)
Best Feature Film - Ojai Film Festival (California – Oct 2013)
Best Feature Film - Brantford Film Festival (Canada – Oct 2013)
Best Film - Free Spirit Film Festival (India – Oct 2013)
Best Photography - Free Spirit Film Festival (India – Oct 2013)
Best Film - CMS International Children’s Film Festival (2014 - India)
Best Phtography - Indie Fest USA (2014 - California)
Best Film - Euro Film Festival (2014 - Spain)
Special Mention Best Script - Asian Film Festival of Boulder (USA)
Special Mention Best Feature Film - Ouidah Film Festival (Benin - Jan 2014)
Special Mention Best Feature Film - Vittorio Veneto Film Festival (Italia - April 2014)
Special Mention Best Film - Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival (India - 2014)
Nomination Best Foreign Film - Long Island Film Festival Expo (New York - March 2014)
Nomination Best Photography - Queens World Film Festival (New York - March 2014)
Nomination Best International Feature Film - Nashik International Film Festival (India – March 2014)
Nomination Best Photography - Winter Film Awards - (New York - March 2014)
Nomination Best Feature Film - Emerge Film Festival (USA - June 2014)
Selections festivals :
62nd International Film festival Mannheim-Heidelberg (Germany – Nov 2013)
30th Bogota International Film Fetival (Colombia – Oct 2013)
Macao Film Festival (Chine - Dec 2013)
Santa Cruz Film Festival (California – Nov 2013)
Chiangkhan International Film Festival (Thailand - Dec 2013)
Spirit Film Festival Tel Aviv (Israel – Oct 2013)
Fer Film Festival (Republic of Kosovo – Oct 2013)
Regiofun Film Festival (Poland – Oct 2013)
Full Lengh Festival (Poland - Nov 2013)
Levante International Film Festival (Italy – Oct 2013)
Third eye 12th Asian Film festival (India – Jan 2014)
20th Victoria Film Festival – (Canada – March 2014)
24th Mediawave International Film and Music Gathering (Hungary - April 2014)
15th Asian International Film Festival of Tours (France - March 2014)
Silver Spring International Film Festival (Florida - USA - April 2014)
23th Arizona International Film Festival (USA – April 2014)
Capital City Film Festival (Washington - April 2014)
Lucerne International Film Festival (Switzerland - 2014)
Dharamsala Film Festival (India - May 2014)
Kimera International Film Festival (Italia - May 2014
Hollywood Weekly Magazine Film Festival (California - Sept 2014)
One Country One Film (France - July 2014)
International Film Festival of Kashmir (India - Sept 2014)
Phom Penh International Film Festival (Cambogia - Sept 2014)
Portobello Film Festival London (England - August/September 2014)
Silk Road International Film Festival (China - Oct 2014)
XIX International TV Festival Bar (Montenegro - October 2014)
Bagdhad International Film Festival (Iraq - October 2014)
5th CinemAvenireFilm Fesival (Roma - 2014)
5th JUMPTHECUT International Film Festival (Singapor -Jan 2015)
Udada International Film Festival (Nairobi - October 2014)
Vernon International Film Festival (France - Nov 2014)
Ankor Wat International Film Festival (Cambogia - Feb 2015)
