The House That Stays

Lê Ngọc Duy (2000) is a filmmaker from Da Nang, Vietnam, whose work explores the politics of memory, queer expression, and Central Vietnamese heritage. His latest short film, Before the Sea Forgets (2025), premiered at 2025 Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, where it was nominated for the Queer Palm. A recipient of Prince Claus Fund’s Seed Award and CJ Short Film Project’s production grant, he participated in the 2025 Locarno Filmmakers Academy and was selected as an Artist in Residence at the Kurzfilmtage Residency @ Villa Sträuli.

Using narrative, essayistic, reenactment, and archival forms, Duy’s recent films question the influence of dominant systems on the construction of collective history. He is a member of A Sông Art Collective, in which he organizes and co-curates the grassroots initiative Cinema Con Nha Ngheo (Cinema of Peasants), promoting local independent cinema.