Phạm Quang Trung (Việt Vũ) is a Belgium-based Vietnamese filmmaker, artistic researcher, and educator. Working across documentary, experimental cinema, and hybrid forms of non-fiction, his practice explores forgotten histories, memory, queer experiences, and underrepresented communities in complex socio-political contexts through intimate, authorial approaches to filmmaking. His work frequently engages with first-person narration, found footage, archival materials, and alternative modes of cinematic representation.
His films and audiovisual works have been presented internationally at festivals including the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Locarno Film Festival, Tampere Film Festival, and numerous other festivals across the world.
In 2018, his debut fiction short Ant-Man received the Most Promising Filmmaker from Southeast Asia Award at the 2nd SeaShorts Film Festival (Malaysia). His docufiction film The Eternal Springtime premiered at IFFR 2021 and later received the Best Documentary Award at the 66th Cork International Film Festival, becoming Academy Awards qualifying, as well as the Best Director Award at the Baku International Short Film Festival. His experimental film My Own Room was awarded the VAF Wildcard by the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (Belgium) in 2021.
Việt Vũ attained his Master's degree in Documentary Film Directing from DocNomads (Erasmus Mundus Joint Master's Programme) in 2021 and was selected for Berlinale Talents in 2021. He is currently completing a Ph.D in the Arts at ARIA / Sint Lucas Antwerpen (KdG) and the University of Antwerp, where his artistic research investigates experimental documentary cinema, memory and forgotten histories, and archival practices.
Alongside his filmmaking, Việt also works as an educator and researcher. He has taught creative documentary filmmaking at Fulbright University Vietnam and has delivered lectures, seminars, and workshops at the University of Antwerp and Sint Lucas Antwerpen School of Arts (Belgium). His teaching focuses on creative documentary, authorial filmmaking, ethics of representation, and filmmaking under minimal production conditions.
Before becoming a filmmaker, Việt worked as a film critic. As a scholar, his writing and artistic research have been published in international peer-reviewed journal FORUM+ and other platforms including Fantômas.
He has served as a jury member for several international film festivals and industry programmes, including This Is Short (European Short Film Network, 2022), Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen (The Netherlands, 2023), and the VAF Wildcard Awards – FilmLab (Belgium, 2025).
