Lao Filmmakers Fund 2025: Full Line-Up

Lao Filmmakers Fund (LFF), established by Blue Chair (formerly Luang Prabang Film Festival), has selected four feature films and three shorts for support in its 2025 funding round.
 
Launched in 2013, the LFF provides direct funding for Lao film projects, with the aim of helping emerging filmmakers to bring their original stories from script to screen. Blue Chair also holds community screenings of Lao films, including those it has supported, and will be returning with the Blue Chair Film Festival, held once every two years, in Luang Prabang in December 2026.
 
This year, Blue Chair also partnered with LanXang Shorts on the first LanXang Shorts Film Camp, encompassing mentorship, a pitch contest and production awards for emerging Lao filmmakers. The initiative is supported by the Heinrich Boll Foundation Southeast Asia and the Luxembourg Embassy in Vientiane. Three short film projects were selected to receive production funding (see details below).

LAO FILMMAKERS FUND 2025:

SHORT FILMS: 

She
Genre: Horror
Director: Hatthouna Manyvongsy
Producer: Dolar Moungkhounkham

The Peddle
Genre: Drama
Director & Writer: Larsoutchai Sitthihakpanya
Producer: Toulaphone Sommalath
[Also selected for Purin Short Film Camp 2025]

A House Is Not A Home
Genre: Drama
Director: Savika Phimphisan
DoP: Toun Souvanpheng

FEATURE-LENGTH FILMS: 

Unforgotten Bloodline
Genre: Drama
Director: Lee Phongsavanh
Synopsis: A 15-year-old boy is sent to live with the ailing mother he has never met in a remote Lao village, where the lingering scars of the Secret War have warped local traditions into something dark and terrifying.

Run Son
Genre: Thriller
Director: Anysay Keola
Synopsis: A thriller revolving around a young mechanic in rural Laos whose search for love and belonging leads him down a dangerous path. Torn between loyalty and conscience, and betrayed by those he trusted, his journey spirals toward a violent reckoning.

Weaving Time: A Journey Through Lao Looms
Genre: Documentary
Director: Soukthavone Thanomenon
Synopsis: Filmed in three remote provinces of Laos, this documentary presents the daily lives of women, each from a different ethnic group, Khmu, Tai Lue and Hmong, who sustain their communities’ traditional weaving practices.

Teacher Shimma’s First Love
Genre: Drama
Director: Mongkoudphet Hansana
Producer: Dolar Moungkhounkham
Synopsis: Based on a short story by Phouvong Phalakhone, this drama follows an elderly man living with a disability who was forced to part from the love of his youth. Now he places his last hope in a young tour guide to help track down his long-lost love in Oudomxay.