Vietnam Film Festival to start in November
The 15th Vietnam Film Festival will be held in the northern city of Nam Dinh from November 21-24 this year, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
The upcoming festival, which is considered a major cultural event of 2007, will provide Vietnamese filmmakers and cinema authorities with a chance to review what they have and have not achieved in the past year as well as set down new goals for the years ahead.
About 40 movies produced during the 2004-2007 period are scheduled to take part. Some of them are well-known award-winning works such as Pao Story, Live in Fear, the White Silk Dress, and Hanoi, Hanoi.
Films by overseas Vietnamese directors such as the Buffalo Boy, Saigon Eclipse, and the Rebels will compete on an equal footing with domestic ones. There will also be films that are yet to be screened widely.
Different from previous festivals, foreign experts from China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, France, the US, and other countries with developed cinema industries, will be invited to sit on the jury bench during the 15th Vietnam Film Festival.
Diverse activities will also be held on the sideline of the event. They range from conferences and talks between audiences and filmmakers among different filmmakers themselves as well as between Vietnamese filmmakers and foreign experts.
The focus of these activities will be the current state of Vietnamese cinema and how to make it interesting and attractive to the public.
Source Vietnamnet