PRAGUE — American Oscar-winning actress Julianne Moore will be honoured at the Karlovy Vary film festival in the Czech Republic at the end of the month, organisers have said. Julianne Moore will receive the Crystal Globe award "for outstanding contribution to world cinema" at the Karlovy Vary Film festival later this month. AFP Photo Moore won the 2014 Best Actress award for her role in Still Alice. She is also known for The Big Lebowski, Hannibal, The Hours and The Kids Are All Right. Moore will receive the Crystal Globe award "for outstanding contribution to world cinema" at the opening ceremony, the organisers said on Tuesday in a statement. Together with her husband, screenwriter and director Bart Freundlich, Moore will introduce their latest film After the Wedding. Six Feet Under and Sharp Objects star Patricia Clarkson will receive the same Crystal Globe at the final ceremony, the organisers said. The 54th edition of the festival in the western Czech … [Read more...] about Czech film festival to honour Oscar-winner Julianne Moore
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Vietnamese film wins award at Cannes Film Festival 2019
The young director Pham Thien An (L) The movie surpassed nine other films from around the world to win the award at the Cannes Film Festival 2019 held from May 14-25 this year. The Directors’ Fortnight section aims to honour feature, short films and documentaries that do not compete in the main categories. Completed in 2018, the film “Stay Awake, Be Ready” is about a traffic accident in front of a sidewalk food stall that spontaneously connects the life of three young people. Cannes is one of the three biggest film festivals in the world. For the Director’s Fortnight section, the leading judge was Colombian filmmaker Ciro Guerra, whose film “Embrace of the Serpent” received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 2016. The film will officially premiered at Cannes from the 23 and 24 of May and received a lot of positive feedback from the film community and international audience. Theo NDO … [Read more...] about Vietnamese film wins award at Cannes Film Festival 2019
Việt Nam wins awards at Sharm El-Sheikh Asian Film Festival
Director Leon Le receives the prize at the Sharm El-Sheikh Asian Film Festival. — Photo courtesy of SonglangthemovieViet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Song Lang (The Tap Box), a film about the art of cải lương (reformed opera) has been honoured at the third edition of the Sharm El-Sheikh Asian Film Festival (SAFF) which takes place on March 2-8 in Egypt. Overseas Vietnamese director Leon Lê won the award for best director while his film Song Lang grabbed the Samir Farid Prize for the best feature film. It’s the only Vietnamese entry competing with 12 other films in this category. This year, the SAFF gathered 58 films from 26 Asian countries such as India, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Singapore, Iran and Azerbaijan. Song Lang is Le’s first feature length film and was written by himself and Nguyễn Thị Minh Ngọc. Through the career of Linh Phụng, a young performer who makes sacrifices to pursue his dream, … [Read more...] about Việt Nam wins awards at Sharm El-Sheikh Asian Film Festival
Vietnamese movie to compete at 2019 Berlin Int’l Film Festival
The cinematic work is one of the 24 films from 17 countries to compete for the Golden and Silver Bear, the Audi Short Film Award, and the “Berlin Short Film Candidate for the European Film Awards 2019”. The 19-minute black-and-white film tells about two stories that occur at the same location 10 years apart. A mother and son look for the father’s tomb at a cemetery where has been turned into a golf course 10 years later, seeing a talk between a rich man and his secret mistress. Lan’s film project won top prize at the 2018 CJ Short Film Project. The director receive cash prize of VND200 million to turn his idea into a film. Pham Ngoc Lan graduated from Hanoi Architectural University in 2009. His movie, "Cu Li Never Cries" was chosen for the L'Atelier Cinefondation at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival while the film, “Another City” won the special mention prize for short fiction at the International Shorts Competition, Indie Lisboa International Film … [Read more...] about Vietnamese movie to compete at 2019 Berlin Int’l Film Festival
All about love featured at film festival
Fortunata is the story of a young mother with a failed marriage, who fights daily for her dream (Photo courtesy of the Wallonie-Bruxelles delegation in Vietnam) Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Five films from Belgium’s Mons International Love Film Festival (FIFA Mons) will be screened free of charge in Hanoi from September 21-24. This screenings are being organised by the Wallonie-Bruxelles delegation in Vietnam, and the National Documentary and Scientific Film Studio, following the success of the two seasons of FIFA Mons held in Vietnam in 2016 and 2017. Anne Lange, a representative for Wallonie - Bruxelles in Vietnam, said the festival was a much-awaited cultural event for Vietnamese audiences thanks to the high quality of the films. “This year we will present more films in more genres than last year,” she said. The audience will have a chance to enjoy two tragedies, a comedy, an animation and a documentary. All of the films have been winners at … [Read more...] about All about love featured at film festival