Artists:
Lêna Bùi
Đặng Thảo Nguyên
Đào Thu Uyên
cát nguyên
Nguyễn Trung Nghĩa

Cinema Con Nhà Nghèo (CNN - Cinema of Peasants) holds cinema as a site of knowledge production: a space for questioning, for reading society from within, for contesting who holds aesthetic authority. CNN is grounded in locality as an epistemic position, and in the work of undoing the structures that govern what comes into view. Founded by filmmaker Mai Huyền Chi, co-managed and curated with filmmaker Lê Ngọc Duy, with the support of A Sông artists, CNN organises screening programs, talks, workshops, residencies, and community education, supporting moving-image artists working across genres, from fiction and documentary to experimental film and video art. CNN is part of A Sông Collective in Central Vietnam, and is supported by Goethe-Institut Ho Chi Minh City.

A Sông: Founded in 2019 in Da Nang - Quang Nam, A Sông is an interdisciplinary collective of artists, performer, curators, and filmmakers committed to nurturing a grassroots art community in Central Vietnam. By organising and curating events such as art festivals, screening programs, and communal gatherings, A Sông emphasises the symbiotic relationship between artistic expression and the non-art aspects of life. This approach situates the collective at the intersection of art, community development, and socio-environmental discourse.

Dogma Collection is a private collection and exhibition space in Ho Chi Minh City specialising in Vietnamese art and propaganda materials from the revolutionary period (1945 - 1985). Through our collection, exhibitions, public programs, and research initiatives, we preserve Vietnam’s visual culture from this era and connect it to contemporary practice. We also organize the biennial Dogma Prize, Vietnam’s first private art prize for contemporary artists from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.