During DANAFF III in Da Nang city, of the 22 war-themed films screened for the audience, 18 were provided by the Vietnam Film Institute with high-quality digitalized versions, with images and sound far superior to before.
Many directors whose films were shown were very surprised at the quality of the films because some of their films were produced 10 to 20 years ago, some even 50 years ago. However, when shown in Da Nang, the films were still bright and beautiful, the sound was very standard, and were received with interest and love by the audience.
The place where those films are kept is the Vietnam Film Institute, the largest film archive in the country and currently among the top in Southeast Asia. Of which, a huge volume of Vietnamese war films produced before and after the country's reunification are carefully preserved, according to strict technical standards in the Institute's archive system.
Over the years, through various forms of activities, the cultural and historical values of hundreds of Vietnamese films on the theme of revolutionary war have been introduced to millions of audiences across regions and areas in the country and many countries around the world .
Among these, war-themed films produced after the country's reunification, both feature films and documentaries, have always been warmly received and received positive reviews about their artistic quality from audiences, especially young audiences.
Over the years, the exploitation and dissemination of the heritage of revolutionary cinema in general and Vietnamese films on the subject of war in particular have always been one of the top priority tasks that the Vietnam Film Institute has focused on investing in.
Ms. Le Thi Ha, Director of Vietnam Film Institute
The 20 films screened during the festival are likened to "golden roses", carefully preserved, over time still fresh, beautiful, and fragrant to today's viewers.
These are the films: “Wild Field” (1979), “Mother Away” (1980), “First Love” (1980), “Returning to the Sand Wind” (1983), “Legend of the Mother” (1987), “Fairy Tales for 17-Year-Olds” (1988), “A Fierce Childhood” (1991), “The Blade” (1995), “Dong Loc Junction” (1997), “Apartment” (1999), “Going South to North” (2000), “Sleepwalking Woman” (2001), “Stork Dance” (2002), “Hanoi 12 Days and Nights” (2002), “Liberation of Saigon” (2005), “Living in Fear” (2006), “Ha Dong Silk Dress” (2006), “Life” (2007), “The Scent of Grass” (2007), “The Scent of Grass” (2007), “The Scent of Grass ” (2007), “The Scent of Grass” (2007), “The Scent of the Grass” (2007), “The Wilderness of the Sand” (2007), “The Wilderness of the Sand” (2007), “The Wilderness of the Sand” (2007), “The Wilderness of the Sand” (2007), “The Scent ... "Fire" (2012), "The Legend Writers" (2013), "The Returnee" (2015), "The Legend of Quan Tien" (2020)...
The films screened and re-introduced at the festival brought many emotions when the audience enjoyed classic films about the Vietnam war. Even the film directors when communicating with the audience such as: Phi Tien Son, Dao Duy Phuc, Dinh Tuan Vu, Le Hoang... were full of emotion, choked up when remembering the years of creating and producing these cinematic works.
At the workshop "Vietnam's War Film Imprints since the country's reunification (April 30, 1975 - April 30, 2025)" at DANAFF III, Director of the Vietnam Film Institute Le Thi Ha said: War films are a very important part of Vietnam's revolutionary cinema heritage, proving their historical, cultural, and artistic value and contributing to healing the wounds of war.
Vietnamese filmmakers, from the early days of the resistance war against French colonialism to the war against the US to save the country, have struggled through the rain of bombs and bullets, creating many works to encourage fighting spirit and depict the heroic sacrifices of heroic characters and events.
During the war, the team of filmmakers grew up through the reality of the nation's struggle. The war theme was expressed excellently and truthfully through each work and was considered by film artists as a spiritual reward and gratitude to the country and to those who sacrificed for the independence and freedom of the Fatherland.
from the day of national reunification (April 30, 1975 - April 30, 2025)".
In 2023, while serving as Deputy Director of the Legal Department of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Ms. Le Thi Ha was awarded the decision by Minister Nguyen Van Hung to take over as Director of the Vietnam Film Institute and, together with the unit's leadership, continuously develop the Institute, carry out digital transformation and effectively apply modern technologies in archiving, preserving and promoting the values of Vietnamese cinema heritage.
With the attention, facilitation, connection and support of the DANAFF III Organizing Committee, the leaders of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the President of the Association for Promotion and Development of Cinema Ngo Phuong Lan, the Vietnam Film Institute has participated in a number of key activities, contributing to the great success of this Film Festival.
Inheriting and promoting the solid foundation created by previous generations, the next generation of Vietnam Film Institute has been building and consolidating the unit to develop more and more, and integrate sustainably. The work of repairing, preserving, and digitizing films is always focused on, films are rotated, wiped, and washed with chemicals periodically with the quantity reaching more than 11 thousand books each year.
Many films of historical value have been successfully restored such as: “Ho Chi Minh - Portrait of a Man”; “The South in My Heart”, “The Last Moments of Uncle Ho’s Life”, “Nguyen Ai Quoc Comes to Lenin”, “Nuoc Nguon Pac Bo”, “Victory of Dien Bien Phu”…
In order to complete the archive collection, prolong the life of films, serve the preservation and effective exploitation of documents, the Vietnam Film Institute has planned and regularly carried out the printing and transferring of expired films, films lacking copies to new film copies on film material or digital betacam tapes to digital files with 2K and 4K resolution.
To date, the Institute has 1,500 Vietnamese feature film files, 2,030 documentary film files, 615 animated film files, and hundreds of files on film activists and general film issues... This is a valuable source of information for research, study, and display and exhibition purposes.
In foreign affairs, the prestige and position of the Vietnam Film Institute are increasingly affirmed in the region and internationally. The Institute currently has good relations with many Film Archives in the world and was the first Film Institute in Southeast Asia to successfully organize the 60th Conference of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) in 2004. The Institute is also one of the founding members of the Association of Southeast Asia-Pacific Audiovisual Archives (SEAPAVVA) in 1995 and has successfully organized four SEAPAVVA Conferences from 1998 to 2021.
During the journey of more than 45 years of construction and development, Vietnam Film Institute has received many consecutive certificates of merit and awards from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and has been honored as the leading unit in the emulation movement of the Cinema Sector.
According to Director Le Thi Ha, these titles and awards are a source of motivation for the staff of the Vietnam Film Institute to continue to promote creativity and make efforts to contribute to becoming a strong, professional unit, worthy of being the leading film archive in the country and Southeast Asia, gradually on par with major film institutes in the world.
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