(VOVworld) - Vietnamese director Nguyen Phuong Anh’s movie The Third Wife has just won the Non-Hong Kong Project Award at the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF).

The movie is about the struggle of a young girl who is married to a much older man in an arranged marriage in late 19th-century rural Vietnam. The film also bagged the White Light Post-Production Award at the same event. At the “Autumn Meeting” forum for independent film producers in Danang, The Third Wife won the Best Art Film Project title. The forum was initiated by popular director Phan Dang Di, producer Tran Thi Bich Ngoc and playwright Nguyen Thi My Dung.