Accordingly, "Rain on the Butterfly Wings" received the "Circolo del Cinema Verona Award" for "Most Innovative Film" and the "Iwonderfull Grand Prize" for "Best Film" (with a prize of 10,000 Euros, about 270 million VND).
The jury gave much praise to the film's uniqueness and creativity as "Rain on the Butterfly" is a combination of humor, social tragedy and fantasy elements, while depicting the complexities of a mother-child relationship.
It is known that "Rain on the Butterfly Wings" is one of 7 films selected from 700 films worldwide in the list of 7 first feature films competing for the award.
Ten years ago, at the 71st Venice Film Festival, Vietnam also had a work competing in this category, "Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere" by female director Nguyen Hoang Diep.
Right after the Venice Film Festival, "Rain on the Butterflies" will continue to attend the Toronto Film Festival - one of the prestigious film events and where many works go on to win Oscars each year. The film will also continue to attend the Busan Film Festival taking place in October, in the program "A Window on Asian Cinema".
"Rain on the Butterfly" is a co-production between Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines and CJ CGV will be the film distributor in Vietnam in the near future.
"DON'T CRY, BUTTERFLY" marks Duong Dieu Linh's feature film directorial debut and is an evolution of her award-winning series of short films centered on middle-aged women.
"Rain on Butterflies" explores themes of femininity, family relationships and cultural traditions, told through a cinematic language of humor, psychology and fantasy.
Director Duong Dieu Linh said the film begins a journey to discover who really causes pain to women, through the intertwined world of mother and daughter, leading to an unexpected discovery.
"This is also my attempt to break the stereotypical image of sad and helpless women, instead showing them as full of life and humor, with a bit of magical realism and dreams. I hope the work will captivate the world as the film did for us" - director Duong Dieu Linh said.
