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• Vietnamese films enter Toronto, Montreal film festivals

  Two Vietnamese films will screen at the Montreal World Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada this month and next. Tam hon me (Mother's Soul) by director Pham Nhue Giang will be one of the 432 films from 80 countries and territories worldwide to be shown at the Montreal event August 23 until September 3. The film features a single mom's complicated life with her two children. Teenage actress Phung Hoa Hoai Linh was awarded Best Female Actor at the 8th International Asia Africa Film Festival in Dubai last year for her role as a little girl…... [read more]

• Vietnamese film compete at Toronto Int'l Film Festival

  Vietnamese movie "In the name of love" directed by Luu Huynh has been nominated for the Contemporary World Cinema category and the People's Choice Award at next month's Toronto International Film Festival in Canada. The movie, named "Lay Chong Nguoi ta" in Vietnamese, featuring local actors like Dinh Y Nhung, Huy Khanh and Thai Hoa, tells the story about the tough life of a young couple living in southern Vietnam after their child is kidnapped by a stranger. It was finished in July and scheduled to be premiered nationwide on September 21. However, after watching the DVD version of the…... [read more]

• Local work nominated at Canadian film fest

  Vietnamese movie "In the name of love" directed by Luu Huynh has been nominated for the Contemporary World Cinema category and the People’s Choice Award at next month’s Toronto International Film Festival in Canada. A scene from the movie "In The name of Love" directed by Luu Huynh. It has been nominated for the Contemporary World Cinema category and the People's Choice Award at the 37th Toronto International Film Festivalto be held in September, 2012 in Canada. Photo: Tuoi Tre The movie, named "Lay Chong Nguoi ta" in Vietnamese, featuring local actors like Dinh Y Nhung, Huy Khanh and Thai…... [read more]

• ART & ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF 9/2

  Goethe-Institut Hanoi to host 'Street-Front Houses' exhibition The Goethe-Institut of Hanoi will host “Nha Mat Pho” (Street-front Houses), an exhibition of the work of artist Nguyen The Son, from March 8-28. Recently, Hanoi’s residential buildings, which have long shaped the face of the city, have been changing dramatically. Instead of windows and balconies, which facilitate the communication between neighbors, tall billboards now seal the houses off from the street. This exhibition reflects an aspect of the rapid transformation of Hanoi's architecture. Using paper and silk, this exhibition features photographic installations which play with the beholder’s perception and blur the line…... [read more]

• ART & ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF 9/2

  Goethe-Institut Hanoi to host 'Street-Front Houses' exhibition The Goethe-Institut of Hanoi will host "Nha Mat Pho" (Street-front Houses), an exhibition of the work of artist Nguyen The Son, from March 8-28. Recently, Hanoi's residential buildings, which have long shaped the face of the city, have been changing dramatically. Instead of windows and balconies, which facilitate the communication between neighbors, tall billboards now seal the houses off from the street. This exhibition reflects an aspect of the rapid transformation of Hanoi's architecture. Using paper and silk, this exhibition features photographic installations which play with the beholder's perception and blur the line…... [read more]

• 2011 hit movies released on DVD

  Two local movies, including the box-office champion from Tet 2011, “Co Dau Dai Chien” (Battle of The Brides), and a Canadian film festival’s nominee “Hot boy Noi Loan” (Lost in Paradise) has been released on DVD recently. “Co Dau Dai Chien” (Battle of The Brides) According Film Publisher Phuong Nam, releasing the movie’sDVD versions after cinema screenings aims to bring the movies closer to local audiences and increase the movies’ revenue. BHD Cinema, the producer of the movies, also held a screening of the movie “Lost in Paradise” on February 7 to mark the release. The film’s cast also took…... [read more]

• 2011 hit movies released on DVD

  Two local movies, including the box-office champion from Tet 2011, "Co Dau Dai Chien" (Battle of The Brides), and a Canadian film festival's nominee "Hot boy Noi Loan" (Lost in Paradise) has been released on DVD recently. "Co Dau Dai Chien" (Battle of The Brides) According Film Publisher Phuong Nam, releasing the movie'sDVD versions after cinema screenings aims to bring the movies closer to local audiences and increase the movies' revenue. BHD Cinema, the producer of the movies, also held a screening of the movie "Lost in Paradise" on February 7 to mark the release. The film's cast also took…... [read more]

• Vietnamese movie to be screened at Vancouver, Busan Film Fests

  After the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada, Vu Ngoc Dang's "Lost in Paradise" will participate in the Vancouver Film Festival in Canada and Busan Film Festival in South Korea in October. Two leading actors in "Lost in Paradise", Luong Manh Hai and Ho Vinh Khoa (second and third from the left) met with the audience in Toronto. At the Toronto Film Festival, "Lost in Paradise" had three film showings for the audiences (selling tickets) and two free showings for journalists and critics. While only 15-30 percent of the seats were sold for other Asian movies, the rate was 80…... [read more]

• Vietnamese movie to be screened at Vancouver, Busan Film Fests

  After the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada, Vu Ngoc Dang’s “Lost in Paradise” will participate in the Vancouver Film Festival in Canada and Busan Film Festival in South Korea in October. Two leading actors in “Lost in Paradise”, Luong Manh Hai and Ho Vinh Khoa (second and third from the left) met with the audience in Toronto. At the Toronto Film Festival, “Lost in Paradise” had three film showings for the audiences (selling tickets) and two free showings for journalists and critics. While only 15-30 percent of the seats were sold for other Asian movies, the rate was 80…... [read more]

• Vietnamese film makes it to Canadian festival

  A Vietnamese movie has been nominated to the Discovery category for outstanding works from promising filmmakers around the world at this month's Toronto International Film Festival in Canada. "Hotboy Noi Loan va Cau Chuyen ve Thang Cuoi, Co Gai Diem va Con Vit" by Vu Ngoc Dang will be screened at the festival under the title "Lost in Paradise." Giovanna Fulvi, the Asian cinema programmer for the festival, wrote on the festival's website: "Perhaps the first film from Vietnam to depict homosexual love both explicitly and in a positive light, Ngoc Dang Vu's 'Lost in Paradise' conveys its characters' lives…... [read more]