Reel Citrus

05/01/2026

Hi. It's May.

Heritage Month is a funny thing when your whole job is heritage. Every month at Reel Citrus is asian american history month. It never ends. We just live in it daily.

So instead of doing a Big Statement, we want to do a few small ones:

Watch a film by an Asian American or diaspora director this month.

If you've got a local indie theater playing one … go. Bring a friend or five. Buy the popcorn.

If a friend posts about a screening on social media, like, share, engage.

Tell us what you're watching. We genuinely want to know.

That's it. That's the post. Happy AANHPI heritage month. Be good to each other.

04/14/2026

The Summer We Show Up is here and it starts with a love story.

It has already sold over a million tickets in Vietnam in under two weeks. The summer we show up starts Friday, May 8 in US theaters.

Meet Me at the Eclipse [Hẹn Em Ngày Nhật Thực] is a 2026 Vietnamese romantic drama directed by Le Thien Vien, starring Đoàn Thiên Ân, and Khương Lê. Set in a rural Catholic village in 1995 Vietnam, the film follows Ân, a woman standing at one of life’s biggest decisions, who is pulled back to her first love by a bundle of letters she never delivered.

04/12/2026

The Summer We Show Up is here and it starts with a love story.

Meet Me at the Eclipse (Hẹn Em Ngày Nhật Thực) is a 2026 Vietnamese romantic drama that has grossed over 100 billion VND (approximately $4 million USD) within its first three weeks, holding the #1 box office position for three consecutive weekends. It is currently the top-performing romantic title of the year in Vietnam and the most discussed film across social platforms, with word of mouth continuing to drive momentum.

Directed by Le Thien Vien, starring Đoàn Thiên Ân, and Khương Lê. Set in a rural Catholic village in 1995 Vietnam, the film follows Ân, a woman standing at one of life’s biggest decisions, who is pulled back to her first love by a bundle of letters she never delivered.

Opening in U.S. theaters Friday, May 08 at AMC, Regal, and Cinemark.

Follow for ticket releases and updates.

04/10/2026

This summer, Reel Citrus and Mockingbird Pictures US are bringing four Vietnamese theatrical releases to North American cinemas — a romantic drama, a supernatural horror, a Mekong Delta folklore thriller, and a diaspora family drama set in Czech Republic. Four films. Four worlds. One slate.

🎥 Meet Me at the Eclipse (Hẹn Em Ngày Nhật Thực) — Directed by Le Thien Vien. Set in rural Vietnam in 1995, the film follows Ân, who returns to the village of Trà Mây to find her first love, Thiên — confronting decades of unresolved feeling and buried secrets. In theaters May 9.

🎥 Phí Phông: The Blood Demon — A Vietnam-Thailand co-production set in a remote highland village. Two apprentice sorcerer brothers must identify and defeat the Phí Phông — a blood-drinking entity from Vietnamese folklore that conceals itself among humans by day — to save their cursed mother. In theaters May 29.

🎥 Hell Trotter (Heo 5 Móng) — Rooted in the Mekong Delta legend of Cô Năm Hợi, the film follows a group of people drawn into a cycle of karmic retribution after encountering a five-clawed pig — a creature believed to be a human soul trapped in animal form as punishment for past sins. In theaters June 19.

🎥 Summer School, 2001 — A Vietnamese diaspora family drama set in Czech Republic. After ten years apart, a teenage boy returns to his family's market stall to find a distant father, a resentful younger brother, and a buried secret that threatens whatever remains of the family. July 2026.

Tickets and theater listings will be released soon. Follow for the full summer campaign rollout.

04/07/2026

some rooms just make you believe in cinema again.

we’ve been collecting images of the most extraordinary theater spaces in the world. places where the architecture itself tells you that what you’re about to experience matters. six of them below.

📍 Élysées Lincoln — Paris, France
An independent cinema on the Champs-Élysées, reimagined in 2025 four generations of the same family, still running it.

📍 Cine Dore — Madrid, Spain
opened in 1912. saved from demolition in the ‘80s by a wave of artists and journalists who took to the streets. now home to the Filmoteca Española — Spain’s national film archive.

📍 Cineteca — Madrid, Spain
inside a former slaughterhouse. dedicated almost entirely to documentary and non-fiction film. vermouth on the patio after.

📍 Wushang Mall Cinema — Wuhan, China
designed by One Plus Partnership as an abstracted science fiction / disaster movie — marble, shadow, concealed LEDs, and geometry that feels like a film

📍 Electric Cinema — London, UK
One of Britain’s oldest purpose-built cinemas. leather armchairs, in-seat dining, and a proscenium arch that still takes your breath away.

📍 La Salle Infinite, Le Grand Rex — Paris, France. The Grand Rex has been a monument since 1932. 2km of programmable LEDs that shift with the film’s mood — is cinema as total environment.

what makes a great cinema to you? a particular theater you’ll never forget? drop it below 👇

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04/07/2026

🎬 A rare New York evening with one of world cinema's most singular voices.

Join acclaimed French-Vietnamese filmmaker Tran Anh Hung and filmmaker-educator Tony Bui for an intimate dialogue tracing the visual poetry behind some of the most beautiful films ever made from the stillness of The Scent of Green Papaya to the bruising lyricism of Cyclo to the sensuous rituals of The Taste of Things.

Together, they'll explore how image, sound, silence, and performance converge and what it means to make cinema that speaks beyond language.

Cash bar reception from 5:30–6:30 PM before the program begins.

Complimentary tickets available at the box office for NYC college students with a valid ID.

📅 Wed, Apr 8, 2026
🕡 6:30–8:00 PM
📍 Asia Society, New York
🎟 $20 / $10 members / Free students



Get Tickets →

In a rare New York appearance, acclaimed French-Vietnamese filmmaker Tran Anh Hung joins filmmaker and professor Tony Bui for a special dialogue.

03/09/2026

See you soon Washington DC! Thank you for your community support Vietnam Society

03/05/2026

With community support from PSK Creative () and Together We Thrive () in rallying the DC community, this special screening of Summer School, 2001 brings a Czech–Vietnamese story to the DC, Maryland, and Virginia Vietnamese community ahead of its theatrical run this summer.

Presented in collaboration with the Embassy of the Czech Republic and Reel Citrus.

The film will be presented in Vietnamese and Czech with English subtitles.

Director Dužan Duong () will be traveling from Prague and will join us for a live Q&A following the screening.

Come watch the film with us and take part in the conversation.

Get tickets now to support the film and the community bringing it to the screen via link in bio or visit theavalon.org/films/summer-school-2001/

03/03/2026

Dustin Nguyen () has never waited for the industry to define him. He built a career in Hollywood, left to make films in Vietnam on his own terms, and returned with even more authorship behind him. Three decades in and he is still expanding.

He currently stars in A24’s upcoming series Superfakes, following roles in Apple TV+’s Dope Thief and the martial arts drama Warrior. In 2023 he led The Accidental Getaway Driver at Sundance. Today, his latest film Song Hỷ Lâm Nguy releases in Vietnam.

Swipe to revisit the work that shaped generations and the roles redefining him now.

Dustin joins us live at Citrus () x Columbia Weatherhead East Asian Institute () — Stories We Carry on March 16.

RSVP via the link in bio. Limited seating.

Post brought to you by Saigon Social () — where Chef Helen Nguyen () turns Vietnamese comfort food into a lifeline of culture, care, and community.

03/02/2026

Come meet Czech-Vietnamese filmmaker Dužan Duong (), director of Summer School, 2001.

This is his first trip to the East Coast, and he’ll be in Washington, DC for an in-person screening and post-film conversation at the Avalon.

One show only. Wednesday, March 11 at

Tickets via link in our bio or visit theavalon.org/films/summer-school-2001/