9 days of movie watching at the European-Vietnamese Documentary Film Festival

Mr. Trinh Quang Tung (Deputy Director of the Central Documentary and Scientific Film Studio, middle) spoke at the press conference of the 14th European-Vietnamese Documentary Film Festival held in Hanoi on August 30 - Photo: DAU DUNG

European-Vietnamese Documentary Film Festival   Co-organized by the Central Documentary and Scientific Film Studio and the Association of European Cultural Institutes and Embassies (EUNIC) and Israel, the festival will take place from September 6 to 14 at the Central Documentary and Scientific Film Studio (Hanoi) and DCine Ben Thanh Cinema (Ho Chi Minh City).

Many good international films come to Vietnam

This film festival introduces 13 Vietnamese documentaries and 9 documentaries from 9 other countries, including Finland, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Italy, Spain, the UK, Austria and Israel.

Including films that won high awards at prestigious film festivals around the world .

The Austrian film Favoriten (Favorite Students) won the Peace Film Award at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival and the Firebird Award for Best Documentary at the 2024 Hong Kong International Film Festival.

Finland's Karaoke Paradise won the Best Documentary Award at the Jussi Film Festival 2023 (Finland) and was nominated for Best Documentary at the Magnolia Awards 2023 (China), DocsBarcelona TV3 Awards 2022 (Spain), Calgary European Film Festival 2023 (Canada)...

The Belgian film I am Chance won the Best Documentary Award at the 2022 San José International Film Festival (Costa Rica), the 2023 PAMPA Documentary Film Festival (Argentina), the 7th San Antonio Independent Film Festival, Ecuador, the Audience Award at the 2023 IBIZA Film Festival (Spain), etc.

Notably, the Italian film Il Cerchio (The Circle) won the David Di Donatello Award for Best Documentary in 2023.

Il Cerchio – one of the notable documentaries at this year's festival – Photo: Organizing Committee

New features of the European-Vietnamese Documentary Film Festival

Director Trinh Quang Tung told Tuoi Tre Online that after more than ten times of organization, the audience of documentary cinema has tended to increase and become younger. That is a good thing.

On the other hand, not only are they like cultural bridges, connecting Vietnamese audiences to other cultures through films, film festivals are also an opportunity for Vietnamese documentary filmmakers to learn how to express and use storytelling language to bring documentary films closer to the world.

“Documentaries are life, containing everyday stories that the whole world is interested in. This year, the films focus on issues of sustainable development, gender equality, children, human rights, identity (personal, cultural), and politics,” said Mr. Tung.

Variety rated Favoriten as a profound and touching film about elementary education - Photo: BTC

According to Mr. Tung, the new point of the 14th European-Vietnamese Documentary Film Festival is that this year there will be an independent film day on September 8, introducing four works by independent Vietnamese filmmakers.

Among them is Con di truong hoc by director Ha Le Diem. This film won the Silver Kite Award in 2013 for short film (there was no Golden Kite).

“That independent vibe is quite exciting, it will add to the freshness of this film festival,” he added.

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