The 6th Hanoi International Film Festival was chaired by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism coordinating with the Hanoi People’s Committee to direct the Cinema Department, the Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports, and other agencies and units. The festival was a great success in the warm and hospitable atmosphere of the audience in Hanoi capital.
Vice Chairman of Hanoi People’s Committee Chu Xuan Dung (left) awarding the Certificate of Merit to People’s Artist – Director Dang Nhat Minh (middle). Photo by: Tran Huan
The 6th Hanoi International Film Festival has become a special film event in the context of international cinema and Vietnam has been recovering after more than 2 years of being heavily affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. The festival has demonstrated the prestige and brand of the “Hanoi International Film Festival” founded by Vietnamese cinema in 2010 on the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi.
After 6 years of organization, up to now, the 6th Hanoi International Film Festival continues to affirm that it is a young, energetic and dynamic film festival that has had initial experiences to be organized more and more professionally, contributing to promoting Vietnamese cinema, and bringing world cinema to Vietnamese audiences. Through each organization period, the Hanoi International Film Festival gradually asserts its position in the development of Vietnamese cinema, and at the same time creates its own mark of a film festival held in the capital Hanoi of thousand years of civilization.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Hanoi People’s Committee organized a solemn film event of international scale, with more than 800 Vietnamese and international delegates attending, 123 films from 56 countries and territories screened during the 5 days of the Film Festival, along with many other activities such as Workshops, Exhibitions, Film Production Project Market, Outdoor Film Screening, Meetings between Filmmaking Artists with the audience, visiting Hanoi, enjoying “quan ho” of Kinh Bac. The Organizing Committee of the Film Festival is deeply aware of the responsibility of the host country, ensuring the safety and prevention of the Covid-19 pandemic, ensuring the green, clean and beautiful landscape of friendly and hospitable Hanoi City which was honored by UNESCO as a creative city, contributing to the vibrant colors, fresh and innovative atmosphere of Hanoi capital and Vietnam country.
In the Closing – Awarding ceremony taking place on the evening of November 12, besides the main awards, the Hanoi People’s Committee presented a Certificate of Merit to People’s Artist Dang Nhat Minh, Director of the movie “Jasmine flower” contributing to the cause of socio-economic, national defense and security construction and development of the City according to Decision No. 4426/QD-UBND dated November 11, 2022 of the Chairman of Hanoi People’s Committee.
“Jasmine flower” by Director – People’s Artist Dang Nhat Minh depicts the life of Hanoians and conveys the love of Hanoi. Photo by: DPC
The movie “Jasmine flower” was born when Director, People’s Artist Dang Nhat Minh was over 80 years old. The film was completed after two years under the heavy impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. “Jasmine flower” is a collage depicting the life of Hanoians in the 2000s, a long time before the pandemic. However, the message of healing by human kindness in urban life in those years is very close to us today, who have just passed through the sequences and upheavals of the pandemic. Those pieces are the life of a shoe shine boy, a sidewalk barber, an old teacher who teaches singing to a choir of blind students and a farmer who moves to Hanoi to work as a staff taking care of the sick, etc. These separate lives combine to form a colorful picture of the life of ordinary Hanoians in the 2000s. There, we could see the changes of Hanoi during its transformation and in its relationship with neighboring areas…
After being screened within the framework of the film festival, “Jasmine flower” is expected to be widely released in early 2023.
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