East Movies and Kontribute are growing a characteristic adaptation of Nguyễn Thiên Ân’s quick “Giấc Mơ Là Ốc Sên” (“The Dream Is a Snail“), with the venture chosen for Cannes’ Focus Co-Professional – an initiative of the SFC | Rendez-vous Trade that helps debut characteristic initiatives of their earliest levels by way of co-production mentoring and business networking.
The characteristic will carry the title “Cỗ May Ốc Sen” (“The Snail Automaton”).
“The Dream Is a Snail” premieres within the quick movie competitors on the Cannes Film Festival.
The Ho Chi Minh Metropolis manufacturing was produced by Thảo Quiêngg of Kontribute alongside East Movies’ Bao Nguyen and Anderson Le, with Command+Artwork additionally collaborating. It was developed by way of the CJ Brief Movie Challenge, with backing from the CJ Basis and the Korean Academy of Movie Arts (KAFA). East Movies is dealing with worldwide press, pageant technique, and international inquiries.
“Originally conceived as a bold sci-fi, slapstick action comedy – a genre rarely embraced within the Vietnamese market – the project was first realized as a more intimate short through the CJ Short Film Project in Vietnam. Its international recognition has now reignited the original vision. With development support from East Films and production backing from Kontribute, Ân will revisit and reimagine the story on a larger scale – allowing ‘Dream Is a Snail’ to return to the full scope of its original ambition,” East and Kontribute stated in a joint assertion.
In “The Dream Is a Snail,” a struggling background actor named Huy takes an uncommon job at a senior rejuvenation workshop the place snails race throughout his physique. Briefly elevated into an unlikely attraction, he’s quickly displaced by a extra interesting performer and turns into consumed by the necessity to reclaim that fleeting sense of being seen. The movie navigates longing, efficiency, and the precarious line between visibility and vulnerability.
“In the film, the snail is a symbol of absurdity that is somehow celebrated. It satirizes its own creator, myself, every time I have to explain what the snail means. At the same time, ‘the dream is’ in the title serves as a quiet reminder to me: if a strange dream like ‘a snail’ can come true, then perhaps no dream is ever impossible,” stated Nguyễn.
Nguyễn is a Vietnamese filmmaker working throughout fiction, music movies, and commercials, with an observational fashion targeted on the emotional textures of on a regular basis life.
“This film stayed with me the first time I saw it. What makes it so memorable is its humor as much as its tenderness. It’s strange, funny, and lingers with you,” stated Bao Nguyen of East Movies. “Ân has such an original voice, and I’m proud East Films could help bring this work to a global stage.”
