“Don’t Cry Butterflies” by female director Duong Dieu Linh and “Who Created Human Beings” by Le Binh Giang will be two among eight projects in the Open Doors Hub component. Both films were co-produced by Vietnam and Singapore.

Contestants at the Lorcano Film Festival.

The initiative, aimed at supporting cinema from the global south and east, is in the final year of a three-year cycle focused on Southeast Asia and Mongolia and encompassing independent filmmaking communities across the countries.

Linh won Locarno’s Pardi di Domani competition in 2020 for the short “A Trip to Heaven”.

Meanwhile, Nguyen Thi Xuan Trang will compete at the Open Door Lab event dedicated to film producers.

Various Vietnamese filmmakers have won awards and grants at the movie festival.

In 2019, Pham Ngoc Lan’s “Culi Never Cries” won the Arte International Prize and Sorfond Award offered by the Sorfond film fund.

“Glorious Ashes” by producer Tran Thi Bich Ngoc and director Bui Thac Chuyen clinched a grant of France’s cinema centre the CNC.

"Bo Gia" becomes first Vietnamese film to rake in VND200 bln on domestic circuit

"Bo Gia" (Old Father) has become the highest-grossing Vietnamese movie by earning VND200 billion ($8.69 million) in nine days.

Seeking ways to develop independent film projects

An animated film based on a historical theme entitled ‘Binh Ngo Dai Chien’ (The Pacification of the Wu) was released last December. It is the final product of the crowd-funded film project named ‘Viet Su Kieu Hung’ (Pride in Vietnamese History) by young filmmakers from the Duoc Moi team.

Vietnamese documentary on female labourers wins prize at US film festival

‘Len Thanh Pho’ (Making our Place), a short documentary on women migrants in Hanoi, has won The Best Next Gen Award at the 2020 Better Cities Film Festival which was recently held in the US.

Film week celebrates 76th anniversary of Vietnamese People’s Army

A film week will be held from December 19 to 25 to celebrate the 76th founding anniversary of Vietnamese People’s Army (December 22, 1944-2020) and welcome the 13th National Party Congress.

Russian Film Week 2020 opens in Hanoi

The Russian Film Week 2020 opened at the National Cinema Centre in Hanoi on the evening of December 9, with “Road to Berlin” being the first movie screened.

Source: NDO