Bui Thac Chuyen's film Tro Tàn Rực Rỡ (Glorious Ashes) won the prestigious Montgolfière d'or prize at the 44th Festival des 3 Continents in Nantes, France, "for the poetic beauty of the world the film portrays, which is both shimmering and bewitching, as well as for the very loving and very mischievous portrayal of its three heroines"