With the desire to introduce to a large audience and international friends the image of Hanoi Capital rich in cultural traditions, peace-loving and growing, the exhibition “The scene of filming is Hanoi’s monuments and cultural heritage” will include two main themes: Introducing images in films with the scenes of Hanoi’s monuments and cultural heritage and Special images of Hanoi through the perspective of artists who love Hanoi.
The exhibition will showcase more than 200 outstanding images, represented by 17 hoardings (01 general introduction hoarding, 16 image hoardings). This is the scene in the cinematographic works of many domestic and international filmmakers, along with beautiful photos of some monuments and cultural heritages in Hanoi.
Approximately 150 images from 29 feature films and documentaries will be presented in the order of year of production in the first theme. In the second one, 40 to 50 independent images which are taken by artists: Pham Thanh Ha cameraman, Nguyen Huu Bao Photographer, Hoang Huu Khanh Photographer… From the exhibition, the audience will see a Hanoi with ancient and idyllic beauty but still resilient, unyielding in documentaries, feature films of the 60s and 70s or a civilized, elegant Hanoi, increasingly developed in the cinematic works of the period of innovation and integration from the 80s to the present. Artistic pictures of monuments and heritage will be arranged in an intertwined and interconnected flow, bringing the audience to discover the very unique beauty, the peaceful moments of a city with thousands of years of culture.
The films cited in the images are precious materials, works that have made their mark in Vietnamese cinema or have just been produced. In particular, the series includes Girl from Hanoi (1974), August Star (1976), Hanoi bird nesting season (1981), Dien Bien Phu (1992), The Season of Guavas (2000), Hanoi 12 days and nights (2002), Hanoi – Hanoi (2006), Jasmine (2022).
The audience will also be able to admire the beauty of Hanoi through documentaries such as: Taking over the Capital (1954), Hanoi Landscape (1958), Hanoi May (1967), Hanoi Day (1967), Happiest Spring (1976), Unified Spring (1976), Songs for Uncle Ho (1978), Hanoi Tet’s flowers (1980), Hanoi in someone’s eyes (1983), Years with the high (1984), 30th Anniversary of the liberation of the capital (1984), Reconciliation of the past for the future (1994), Hanoi Old Town (1994), Vietnam on the way to renewal (1995), Suburbia (1999), Countryside (2001), The letter of ceramics (2007), The storytellers of Hanoi Old Town (2020), Vietnamese religious beliefs (2021).
With more than a thousand years, Hanoi is the city with the largest number of relics and heritage in the country: 5922 historical – cultural relics, 1793 intangible cultural heritages. Hanoi has positioned domestic and foreign tourists as cultural and heritage tourist destinations. Through the exhibition “The scene of filming is Hanoi’s monuments and cultural heritage”, international visitors have the opportunity to learn and discover Hanoi – the crystallization of cultural values from tradition to modernity. This is also an occasion for delegates, artists, experts, managers to learn, summarize, to preserve and promote the cultural heritage values of Hanoi in particular and Vietnam in general.
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