Siu Pham
Biography
Born in Hanoi, Siu Pham studied Art History and Film Critique at the University of Geneva. She has been working in contemporary theatre and making various documentaries with Jean Luc Mello. Her first feature film Here... or There? was selected in the New Current section of the Busan International Film Festival in 2011. Her second feature film Homostratus won Best Unique Vision at the Queens World Film Festival in New York.
Known For & Full Filmography3 Titles
Movie - 2015, 2h 15m • as The Grandmother
A cinematic journey to the death in searching for the paradise of youth on the highlands of northern Vietnam.
Movie - 2014, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A city in explosive development. Overcrowded streets of human beings, all on motorbikes, get mixed up into circulation streams, nobody knows neither their source nor their activities.A magma of images reflects, without consistency, all ideals of consumption.In this confusion, a particular destiny could be a daily life of everybody. Such as a common story: a grand-mother is dying, a divorced woman who does not want to take care of her teenager child, an anxious father initiates his son earning his own living, a teenager dreams of a lucky life without having to work, and new rules of transparency in global way of judgments implicate up to private life of a human being, pretending control the quality of his work... Nobody knows what will be happened next?
Movie - 2007, 2h 15m • as The Chinese Housekeeper
A family living in poverty faces financial difficulties while striving to educate their daughters. The mother resorts to extraordinary measures to procure the traditional silk dresses needed for her kids to attend school.