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Vietnamese film to open Berlin Panorama

A Vietnamese film, entitled Nuoc 2030 (Water 2030), will be opening the Berlin International Film Festival's Panorama selection for the first time, dtinews.vn website reported.
A Vietnamese film, entitled Nuoc 2030 (Water 2030), will be openingthe Berlin International Film Festival's Panorama selection for thefirst time, dtinews.vn website reported.

The movie, directed by Nguyen Vo Nghiem Minh, will be screened at 9pm (Berlin time) on February 6.

According to the organisers, it has been seven years since an Asianmovie was selected to be the opening film for the Panorama selection.

Nuoc 2030 was filmed in 2013, completed in 2014 and based onthe novella Nuoc Nhu Nuoc Mat (Water that Looks Like Tears) by writerNguyen Ngoc Tu.

The mystery thriller is set in 2030, whenhalf of southern Vietnam has been submerged under seawater because ofclimate change so people harvest crops on floating farms.

When the husband of Sao, the heroine, dies, she starts to investigatehis death and finds herself a job on a floating farm run by her formerlover. Here, she discovers that genetically modified products pose ahuge risks to human health.

Nuoc 2030 is the third Vietnamesemovie selected for Panorama, after Giot Le Ha Long (The Tear Drop Pearlof Ha Long) in 1995 and Hotboy Noi Loan (Rebel Hot Boy) in 2012.-VNA
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