section: Opus Bonum
edition: 2022
country: Czech Republic
Diana Cam Van Nguyen is a Czech-Vietnamese director based in Prague, Czech Republic, graduates from FAMU. Her short films have been selected at festivals like Locarno, Toronto, Rotterdam or IDFA. Apart (2018) was a finalist in BAFTA Student Film Award 2019. Her latest short Love, Dad (2021) won BFI Short Film Award, Clermont-Ferrand Connexion Award and it has been awarded at the Academy Qualifying festivals as AFI Fest, Flickerfest, SIFF, Krakow and Nashville FF. In her works she focuses on personal topics through the means of animated documentary, currently developing a live-action / animation feature.