For the first time: Vietnamese school musicals participate in the 2025 Da Nang Asian Film Festival

Victoria School brings "The Enchanted Crossbow" to the Da Nang Asian Film Festival - a gathering place for hundreds of works and names from the world's leading cinema industries.

The musical "The Enchanted Crossbow", organized by the Victoria SchoolEducation System and sponsored by the Vietnam Youth Theatre, will officially perform at the Da Nang Asian Film Festival (DANAFF 2025) on July 2, 2025. This is the first time in the history of international film festivals that a school musical has been selected to perform within the official framework of the event.

The musical "The Enchanted Crossbow" will be featured at the Da Nang Asian Film Festival

Before coming to DANAFF 2025, "The Enchanted Crossbow" had two successful performances at the Ho Chi Minh City Theater in April 2025, attracting nearly 1,000 audiences including parents, students, artists, and art lovers. The excellent performance of the "actors" of Victoria School along with the investment in stage design, choreography, costumes, and modern music received a "shower" of compliments from the audience. Following that success, Victoria School brought "The Enchanted Crossbow" to the larger stage of the Da Nang Asian Film Festival - which brings together hundreds of works and names from the world's leading cinema industries.

Victoria School students' successful performance beyond expectations at Ho Chi Minh City Theater in April 2025

The fact that a Vietnamese school art work was invited to perform officially within the framework of an international event is a special milestone, opening up opportunities to elevate school musicals, affirming the diversity of Vietnamese art education, not only in the classroom, through films, but also through musical theater.

"The Enchanted Crossbow" is elaborately staged from the setting, stage props to character costumes.

"The Enchanted Crossbow" is a large-scale school art project that Victoria School has been nurturing and implementing for many months. The play does not recreate history in a classical narrative style but exploits the story in modern theatrical language, combining music, light, choreography and emotions to bring the audience closer to Vietnamese folk cultural values.

Taking on the role of artistic director and professional sponsor are experienced artists, directors, and choreographers from the Vietnam Youth Theater such as Meritorious Artist Le Anh Tuyet, Meritorious Artist Chi Trung, Meritorious Artist Nguyen Si Tien, Choreographer Nguyen Vu Khanh, Singer Nguyen Tran Trung Quan... At DANAFF 2025, the musical "The Enchanted Crossbow" will be invested more in terms of technique and performance skills. The professional sound and lighting team will create a complete stage in both content and form, suitable for the framework of an international event.

A dramatic scene from "The Enchanted Crossbow"

The show brings together more than 40 talented students from Victoria School.

Let's look forward to Victoria School's school musical - a cultural highlight not to be missed at the 2025 Danang Asian Film Festival!

Event information :

• Time: 18:30, July 2, 2025
• Location: Ariyana International Convention Center, Danang
• Tickets: https://nhackich.victoriaschool.edu.vn/
• Contact hotline: 1900 6808

Victoria School is a Cambridge International Bilingual School system following the UNESCO Happy School model, helping students access international education right in Vietnam at a reasonable cost. Victoria School provides a seamless learning path, integrating the essence of national and international knowledge with the most modern educational technology and facilities, aiming to train generations of excellent, brave students, who are happy global citizens, with national identity and compassion, responsible for family, community and society.

The Da Nang Asian Film Festival is a prestigious international film event held annually in Vietnam under the auspices of the Da Nang People's Committee and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. DANAFF 2025 is expected to bring together hundreds of film works from major film industries such as Japan, Korea, China, Thailand, Iran, France, Italy... with the participation of hundreds of international filmmakers, artists, directors and experts.

Source: https://nld.com.vn/lan-dau-tien-nhac-kich-hoc-duong-viet-nam-gop-mat-tai-lien-hoan-phim-chau-a-da-nang-2025-196250619143226509.htm