Vietnam’s film entitled “ Bi, Don’t Be Afraid” will compete for the International Critics’ Week prize at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
This is the first feature film written and directed by Phan Dang Di. It is about family, a women’s long-term suffering and high-minded sensibility, a man’s pleasure and latent fears, and childhood innocence in an adult world of mystery and concealment.
The film won the Outstanding Project of Asia award at Pusan Film Festival in the Republic of Korea in 2007 and recently received a 50,000 EUR grant for production from the World Cinema Fund of the Berlin Film Festival.
A sidebar section at the festival, International Critics’ Week focuses on discovering and highlighting new talent in filmmaking.
Earlier on April 24, the film “Dream in Hanoi ” starring two Vietnamese dancers was screened at the opening of the International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy in Bourgogne , France .
The non-verbal dance movie, directed by Gerald Herman who is also the founder of the Hanoi Cinematheque, features Cao Chi Thanh, the principal dancer of the Vietnam National Opera Ballet Theatre and Pham Ngoc Thanh, a student of the National Opera Ballet School .
The film tells the story of a little boy who lost his bicycle on the way to school and then used the movements of a ballet-dancer that he saw during his wandering to fight against two stealers and won his bicycle back.
Cao Chi Thanh is already known to European audiences for his appearances in Sweden and at the Prague International Dance Festival. He has won the Kirsti Pakkaanen prize at the International Ballet Competition in Helsinki .
The movie will be shown at the Miami Short Film Festival, Lahore International Children’s Film Festival and Los Angeles Family Film Festival./.
This is the first feature film written and directed by Phan Dang Di. It is about family, a women’s long-term suffering and high-minded sensibility, a man’s pleasure and latent fears, and childhood innocence in an adult world of mystery and concealment.
The film won the Outstanding Project of Asia award at Pusan Film Festival in the Republic of Korea in 2007 and recently received a 50,000 EUR grant for production from the World Cinema Fund of the Berlin Film Festival.
A sidebar section at the festival, International Critics’ Week focuses on discovering and highlighting new talent in filmmaking.
Earlier on April 24, the film “Dream in Hanoi ” starring two Vietnamese dancers was screened at the opening of the International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy in Bourgogne , France .
The non-verbal dance movie, directed by Gerald Herman who is also the founder of the Hanoi Cinematheque, features Cao Chi Thanh, the principal dancer of the Vietnam National Opera Ballet Theatre and Pham Ngoc Thanh, a student of the National Opera Ballet School .
The film tells the story of a little boy who lost his bicycle on the way to school and then used the movements of a ballet-dancer that he saw during his wandering to fight against two stealers and won his bicycle back.
Cao Chi Thanh is already known to European audiences for his appearances in Sweden and at the Prague International Dance Festival. He has won the Kirsti Pakkaanen prize at the International Ballet Competition in Helsinki .
The movie will be shown at the Miami Short Film Festival, Lahore International Children’s Film Festival and Los Angeles Family Film Festival./.
