Vietnam’s economic hub will host the festival’s first edition in April 2024.
Vietnam is set to host the first ever Ho Chi Minh City International Film Festival (Hiff) from April 6-13, 2024.
The festival will aim to promote the local film industry while positioning Hcm City, the country’s economic hub, as a “film city” in which to invest. It will be hosted by the People’s Committee of Hcm City and organised by the Department of Culture and Sports of Hcm City.
Hiff is designed to be a large-scale festival, with a red-carpet opening gala and an awards ceremony...
Vietnam is set to host the first ever Ho Chi Minh City International Film Festival (Hiff) from April 6-13, 2024.
The festival will aim to promote the local film industry while positioning Hcm City, the country’s economic hub, as a “film city” in which to invest. It will be hosted by the People’s Committee of Hcm City and organised by the Department of Culture and Sports of Hcm City.
Hiff is designed to be a large-scale festival, with a red-carpet opening gala and an awards ceremony...
- 9/22/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Further winners included ‘Seeds Of A Nation’ and ‘Whispers In May’.
Upcoming documentaries Camels Of The Sea and Friday At The Window have won the top pitch prizes at South Korea’s Dmz Documentary Market.
The awards were announced on Tuesday (September 19) on the closing day of Dmz Docs Industry, the industry arm of the Dmz International Documentary Film Festival.
India’s Camels Of The Sea won the top prize of $37,700 (KRW50m) in the Global Pitch category, while Iran-Belgium-Norway-Qatar co-production Friday At The Window won the top award of $30,000 (KRW40m) in the Rough Cut Pitch category.
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Upcoming documentaries Camels Of The Sea and Friday At The Window have won the top pitch prizes at South Korea’s Dmz Documentary Market.
The awards were announced on Tuesday (September 19) on the closing day of Dmz Docs Industry, the industry arm of the Dmz International Documentary Film Festival.
India’s Camels Of The Sea won the top prize of $37,700 (KRW50m) in the Global Pitch category, while Iran-Belgium-Norway-Qatar co-production Friday At The Window won the top award of $30,000 (KRW40m) in the Rough Cut Pitch category.
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- 9/20/2023
- by Matt Schley
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The PBS series Pov today announced the lineup of films for its historic 36th season, a diverse slate highlighted by documentaries with Oscar pedigree.
The season kicks off June 26 with Jon-Sesrie Goff’s acclaimed After Sherman, winner of best documentary prizes at the Atlanta Film Festival and Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The Academy Award-nominated A House Made of Splinters makes its Pov debut on July 17. Simon Lereng Wilmont’s film creates a deeply moving portrait of Ukrainian children sheltered in a temporary orphanage, where empathetic caregivers tend to their emotional needs as war with Russia rumbles around them.
‘Children of the Mist’
Children of the Mist, premiering on Pov on July 31, earned a spot on the Oscar shortlist. Hà Lệ Diễm’s film centers on a Hmong teenager living in rural Northern Vietnam who resists a cultural tradition that permits girls to be kidnapped and forced into marriage.
The season kicks off June 26 with Jon-Sesrie Goff’s acclaimed After Sherman, winner of best documentary prizes at the Atlanta Film Festival and Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The Academy Award-nominated A House Made of Splinters makes its Pov debut on July 17. Simon Lereng Wilmont’s film creates a deeply moving portrait of Ukrainian children sheltered in a temporary orphanage, where empathetic caregivers tend to their emotional needs as war with Russia rumbles around them.
‘Children of the Mist’
Children of the Mist, premiering on Pov on July 31, earned a spot on the Oscar shortlist. Hà Lệ Diễm’s film centers on a Hmong teenager living in rural Northern Vietnam who resists a cultural tradition that permits girls to be kidnapped and forced into marriage.
- 5/4/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
The 46-title line-up was announced on Wednesday (April 19).
The inaugural Danang Asian Film Festival (Danaff) is set to be Vietnam’s first film festival organised regionally, following the promulgation of a new Cinema Law that came into effect in January this year.
Danaff is jointly organized by Vietnam Association of Film Promotion and Development (Vfda) and Da Nang Municipal People’s Committee, with the support of the Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema (Netpac). It will run from May 9-13 in the coastal city of Da Nang, situated in central Vietnam.
Vfda chairwoman and director of Danaff Ngo...
The inaugural Danang Asian Film Festival (Danaff) is set to be Vietnam’s first film festival organised regionally, following the promulgation of a new Cinema Law that came into effect in January this year.
Danaff is jointly organized by Vietnam Association of Film Promotion and Development (Vfda) and Da Nang Municipal People’s Committee, with the support of the Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema (Netpac). It will run from May 9-13 in the coastal city of Da Nang, situated in central Vietnam.
Vfda chairwoman and director of Danaff Ngo...
- 4/20/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Pov has acquired the Oscar-shortlisted feature documentary Children of the Mist, a film that explores a disturbing tradition among Vietnam’s Hmong minority that involves kidnapping girls and forcing them into marriages.
The vérité film from first-time feature director Hà Lệ Diễm will premiere on the PBS series as part of Pov’s 36th season, which launches in the summer. The central character in the film is Di, a 12-year-old Hmong girl living in rural Northern Vietnam who casually flirts with a boy, then finds herself the target of a kidnapping which could determine the rest of life.
The Guardian called the documentary “shattering,” and awarded it four stars. In a review for the New York Times, critic Beatrice Loayza wrote, “‘Bride-napping’ is a Hmong custom that permits boys, often with the help of their families, to nab girls and detain them for three days. Throughout this time, the...
The vérité film from first-time feature director Hà Lệ Diễm will premiere on the PBS series as part of Pov’s 36th season, which launches in the summer. The central character in the film is Di, a 12-year-old Hmong girl living in rural Northern Vietnam who casually flirts with a boy, then finds herself the target of a kidnapping which could determine the rest of life.
The Guardian called the documentary “shattering,” and awarded it four stars. In a review for the New York Times, critic Beatrice Loayza wrote, “‘Bride-napping’ is a Hmong custom that permits boys, often with the help of their families, to nab girls and detain them for three days. Throughout this time, the...
- 2/2/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Viet Film Fest 2022, presented by the Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association (Vaala), a nonprofit organization that is celebrating its 30th year anniversary in 2022, announces its full lineup for the 13th edition of the festival. The return of Viet Film Fest will provide access to national and international audiences through an online streaming platform in a movies-on-demand environment from October 1-15, 2022, as well as a 2-day in-person screening at Century Huntington Beach and Xd on October 7th and 8th. This year’s in-person screening brings Viet Film Fest closer than ever to its home in Little Saigon, Orange County, California.
“It is so exciting for us to bring the festival so close to Little Saigon in a new venue,” said Tran Lee, this year’s Viet Film Fest Events Director. “We have never been more than a few miles away from the heart of Little Saigon and a few streets down...
“It is so exciting for us to bring the festival so close to Little Saigon in a new venue,” said Tran Lee, this year’s Viet Film Fest Events Director. “We have never been more than a few miles away from the heart of Little Saigon and a few streets down...
- 9/10/2022
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Film Movement has acquired North American rights from Wild Bunch International.
Film Movement has acquired North American rights from Wild Bunch International to Wen Shipei’s 2021 Cannes selection Are You Lonesome Tonight?
The story follows a man who believes he has caused a fatal accident and develops an ambiguous relationship with the dead man’s widow, while a police officer investigates the death.
Years later all three people remain tangled in a web of memories and lies, desperately searching for a truth that refuses to be revealed.
Shipei’s feature directorial debut and Camera d’Or nominee played TIFF last...
Film Movement has acquired North American rights from Wild Bunch International to Wen Shipei’s 2021 Cannes selection Are You Lonesome Tonight?
The story follows a man who believes he has caused a fatal accident and develops an ambiguous relationship with the dead man’s widow, while a police officer investigates the death.
Years later all three people remain tangled in a web of memories and lies, desperately searching for a truth that refuses to be revealed.
Shipei’s feature directorial debut and Camera d’Or nominee played TIFF last...
- 9/10/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Film Movement acquires TIFF sales title, Camera d'Or nominee ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight?’ (exclusive)
2021 Cannes Camera d’Or nominee played TIFF last year.
Film Movement has acquired North American rights from Wild Bunch International to Wen Shipei’s 2021 Cannes selection Are You Lonesome Tonight?
The story follows a man who believes he has caused a fatal accident and develops an ambiguous relationship with the dead man’s widow, while a police officer investigates the death.
Years later all three people remain tangled in a web of memories and lies, desperately searching for a truth that refuses to be revealed.
Shipei’s feature directorial debut and Camera d’Or nominee played TIFF last year and...
Film Movement has acquired North American rights from Wild Bunch International to Wen Shipei’s 2021 Cannes selection Are You Lonesome Tonight?
The story follows a man who believes he has caused a fatal accident and develops an ambiguous relationship with the dead man’s widow, while a police officer investigates the death.
Years later all three people remain tangled in a web of memories and lies, desperately searching for a truth that refuses to be revealed.
Shipei’s feature directorial debut and Camera d’Or nominee played TIFF last year and...
- 9/9/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
A long form documentary shot over the course of several years in the hill valleys of Vietnam, Children of the Mist asks several uncomfortable questions of its audience and, indeed, its documentarian. Di is a young Hmong girl, a friend of director Ha Le Diem, and every scene is coloured as much by the eponymous fog as by a statement. "Always scared of what would eventually happen".
Near the start we climb a feature of the landscape that we will return to, in different contexts, days, weeks, months, years later. "This is the biggest rock around", and the different perspective it offers is one of several within the film. There is a tradition among the Hmong of bridal kidnap. As Di gets older, as her schooling continues, the day that something will happen gets closer.
Until it does, there is unease, and when it does, which almost goes without saying,...
Near the start we climb a feature of the landscape that we will return to, in different contexts, days, weeks, months, years later. "This is the biggest rock around", and the different perspective it offers is one of several within the film. There is a tradition among the Hmong of bridal kidnap. As Di gets older, as her schooling continues, the day that something will happen gets closer.
Until it does, there is unease, and when it does, which almost goes without saying,...
- 8/22/2022
- by Andrew Robertson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Pilgrims (2021).For over fifty years since its inception in the early 1970s, New Directors/New Films has served as a formidable platform for emerging voices in world cinema. Often a bolder, more daring cousin to the New York Film Festival, each spring its lineups offer globe-trotting samples of first and second independently produced features and shorts. It’s a small oasis one visits to glimpse the future of movies, one that’s been home to the early works of directors as disparate as Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Christopher Nolan, Wong Kar-wai, and Kelly Reichardt. In a strong edition, as this one was, its selection will sponge something of our zeitgeist and spotlight titles redefining and defying conventional genres. One such example this year was Laurynas Bareiša’s Pilgrims, winner of the Orizzonti section at the Venice Film Festival. The film follows Paulius and Indre (Giedrius Kiela and Gabija Bargailaite), two thirty-somethings from...
- 4/27/2022
- MUBI
Di in New Directors/New Films highlight Children Of The Mist, directed by Diễm Hà Lệ (Ha Le Diem)
The mist rises fast in the northern mountain region of Vietnam where the indigenous Hmong community resides. Just as fast as girls have to grow up, because of an ancient marriage custom that takes place around the time of the Lunar New Year.
Diễm Hà Lệ with Anne-Katrin Titze: “My Hmong friends started to introduce me to their culture and I was very curious about this.”
Diễm Hà Lệ’s breathtaking documentary (a New Directors/New Films highlight and Best Directing award winner in the International Competition at IDFA 2021) tells the story of Di, who lives with her family in a remote village, surrounded by pigs and puppies and kittens and chickens who all live together in a big barn-like structure, complete with an open fire and cordoned off sleeping areas.
The mist rises fast in the northern mountain region of Vietnam where the indigenous Hmong community resides. Just as fast as girls have to grow up, because of an ancient marriage custom that takes place around the time of the Lunar New Year.
Diễm Hà Lệ with Anne-Katrin Titze: “My Hmong friends started to introduce me to their culture and I was very curious about this.”
Diễm Hà Lệ’s breathtaking documentary (a New Directors/New Films highlight and Best Directing award winner in the International Competition at IDFA 2021) tells the story of Di, who lives with her family in a remote village, surrounded by pigs and puppies and kittens and chickens who all live together in a big barn-like structure, complete with an open fire and cordoned off sleeping areas.
- 4/21/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Belgium-based Iranian filmmaker Vida Dena’s debut feature documentary follows two Syrian girls adjusting to life in Brussels.
Paris-based sales agent Cat&Docs has acquired international rights to Visions du Réel competition title My Paper Life about two Syrian girls adjusting to a new life in Belgium.
The debut feature documentary of Belgium-based Iranian filmmaker Vida Dena will world premiere at the Swiss documentary film festival, running from April 7-17 in the lakeside town of Nyon.
My Paper Life centres on the two eldest daughters of a Syrian refugee family living in Brussels and their growing collection of drawings and dreams.
Paris-based sales agent Cat&Docs has acquired international rights to Visions du Réel competition title My Paper Life about two Syrian girls adjusting to a new life in Belgium.
The debut feature documentary of Belgium-based Iranian filmmaker Vida Dena will world premiere at the Swiss documentary film festival, running from April 7-17 in the lakeside town of Nyon.
My Paper Life centres on the two eldest daughters of a Syrian refugee family living in Brussels and their growing collection of drawings and dreams.
- 4/7/2022
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
Sffilm announced the full lineup for the 65th annual San Francisco International Film Festival, the longest running film festival in the Americas. This year the Festival will make its return to theaters in person, featuring more than 130 films from 56 countries, including 16 World and 10 North American premieres, along with many Sffilm-supported titles. Of the films selected for the Festival, 56 are helmed by female or non-binary filmmakers and 52 are directed by Bipoc filmmakers. The Festival will also celebrate cinematic icon Michelle Yeoh with a special tribute to be presented by critically acclaimed actor Sandra Oh. The 2022 Festival will run April 21–May 1, with tickets on sale now at sffilm.org.
Michelle Yeoh was recently hailed by New York Times film critic A.O. Scott as “one of the great international movie stars of the past quarter-century.” Her tribute will be an intimate conversation with Emmy Award-nominated actress Sandra Oh, about her prestigious and extensive...
Michelle Yeoh was recently hailed by New York Times film critic A.O. Scott as “one of the great international movie stars of the past quarter-century.” Her tribute will be an intimate conversation with Emmy Award-nominated actress Sandra Oh, about her prestigious and extensive...
- 4/4/2022
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art has set Audrey Diwan’s Happening and The African Desperate by Martine Syms will bookend the 51st edition of their collaboration, New Directors/New Films running April 20–May 1 in NYC.
The festival will introduce 26 features and 11 shorts and total of 39 directors — 21 of which are women.
“Portraits of individuals and communities navigating uncertain and turbulent circumstances in pursuit of freedom, self-determination, and survival set a remarkably contemplative tone to the lineup,” said La Frances Hui, curator of MoMa’s film department and event co-char.
Happening (L’Événement), winner of the 2021 Venice International Film Festival’s Golden Lion, is the portrait of a young woman attempting to secure an illegal abortion in 1960s provincial France. It was acquired by IFC Films and will be released May 6.
The African Desperate, a debut feature from Syms, rushes through 24 hours in the life of protagonist Palace...
The festival will introduce 26 features and 11 shorts and total of 39 directors — 21 of which are women.
“Portraits of individuals and communities navigating uncertain and turbulent circumstances in pursuit of freedom, self-determination, and survival set a remarkably contemplative tone to the lineup,” said La Frances Hui, curator of MoMa’s film department and event co-char.
Happening (L’Événement), winner of the 2021 Venice International Film Festival’s Golden Lion, is the portrait of a young woman attempting to secure an illegal abortion in 1960s provincial France. It was acquired by IFC Films and will be released May 6.
The African Desperate, a debut feature from Syms, rushes through 24 hours in the life of protagonist Palace...
- 3/29/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Golden Lion winner “Happening” will open the 2022 New Directors/New Films Festival, Film at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art announced Tuesday.
Now in its 51st year, the New Directors/New Films Festival screens the best films made by young filmmakers, many of which tend to be their debut features. The festival has served as an early showcase for many notable directors, including Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Kelly Reichardt, Pedro Almodóvar, Spike Lee, Lynne Ramsay, Michael Haneke, Wong Kar Wai, Guillermo del Toro and Luca Guadagnino. This year, the festival will screen 26 features and 11 shorts.
“Portraits of individuals and communities navigating uncertain and turbulent circumstances in pursuit of freedom, self-determination, and survival set a remarkably contemplative tone for the lineup,” 2022 Nd/Nf co-chair and MoMa department of film curator La Frances Hui said in a statement. “This year’s new directors look inward and draw on events past and present...
Now in its 51st year, the New Directors/New Films Festival screens the best films made by young filmmakers, many of which tend to be their debut features. The festival has served as an early showcase for many notable directors, including Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Kelly Reichardt, Pedro Almodóvar, Spike Lee, Lynne Ramsay, Michael Haneke, Wong Kar Wai, Guillermo del Toro and Luca Guadagnino. This year, the festival will screen 26 features and 11 shorts.
“Portraits of individuals and communities navigating uncertain and turbulent circumstances in pursuit of freedom, self-determination, and survival set a remarkably contemplative tone for the lineup,” 2022 Nd/Nf co-chair and MoMa department of film curator La Frances Hui said in a statement. “This year’s new directors look inward and draw on events past and present...
- 3/29/2022
- by Wilson Chapman
- Variety Film + TV
Although Vietnamese law requires men to be at least 20 years old and women to be at least 18 before marrying, and the little known but rather inhuman custom of Hai Pu is illegal, the practice of a boy kidnapping a girl without her of her family’s consent is still regularly practiced in some Hmong communities, to the point that there are even rules established: Once the girl is at the hopeful husband’s home, his parents are obliged to contact the girl’s family, who can either demand her release or accept the marriage. A bride price, to be paid by the boy’s family, is then negotiated, while both spouses must also give free consent. Ha Le Diem, in her feature debut (made with a grant from Sundance Institute doc program), spent three years in a Hmong community in the mountains of North Vietnam, documenting 12-year-old Di, who finds...
- 3/15/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The Swiss documentary festival has unveiled the line-ups for its Grand Angle and Latitudes sections.
Swiss documentary festival Visions du Réel has unveiled the line-ups for its Grand Angle and Latitudes sections, ahead of the full programme’s announcement on March 15, which includes A House Made Of Splinters, set in a children’s home in Eastern Ukraine.
A statement from the festival said: “Visions du Réel is joining the international movement of solidarity with the Ukrainian people, who are fighting for their freedom. We express our support for Ukrainian artists and filmmakers, and for all those whose lives are threatened and upended by the war.
Swiss documentary festival Visions du Réel has unveiled the line-ups for its Grand Angle and Latitudes sections, ahead of the full programme’s announcement on March 15, which includes A House Made Of Splinters, set in a children’s home in Eastern Ukraine.
A statement from the festival said: “Visions du Réel is joining the international movement of solidarity with the Ukrainian people, who are fighting for their freedom. We express our support for Ukrainian artists and filmmakers, and for all those whose lives are threatened and upended by the war.
- 3/8/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
True/False Festival Returns In-Person With Annual Parade and Spirited Response to Docus About Russia
True/False, the preeminent non-fiction festival, returned as an in-person event Thursday, drawing documentary notables and fans of their work to a Missouri college town for the first lineup under the artistic direction of Chloe Trayner.
There were 31 features and 19 short non-fiction films at the fest, which had more of an international tilt than usual and concludes March 6. Eight features, including “Fire of Love,” “I Didn’t See You There” and “The Territory,” had previously debuted virtually at Sundance in January, but screened for the first time for public audiences at True/False.
Their respective directors — Sara Dosa (“Fire of Love”), Reid Davenport (“I Didn’t See You There”) Alex Pritz (“The Territory”) – were among the filmmakers making the trek to Columbia for the 19th edition of True/False. Fellow Sundance 2022 doc directors including Isabel Castro (“Mija”) and Joe Hunting (“We Met in Virtual Reality”) also attended.
“Sundance was amazing, but True...
There were 31 features and 19 short non-fiction films at the fest, which had more of an international tilt than usual and concludes March 6. Eight features, including “Fire of Love,” “I Didn’t See You There” and “The Territory,” had previously debuted virtually at Sundance in January, but screened for the first time for public audiences at True/False.
Their respective directors — Sara Dosa (“Fire of Love”), Reid Davenport (“I Didn’t See You There”) Alex Pritz (“The Territory”) – were among the filmmakers making the trek to Columbia for the 19th edition of True/False. Fellow Sundance 2022 doc directors including Isabel Castro (“Mija”) and Joe Hunting (“We Met in Virtual Reality”) also attended.
“Sundance was amazing, but True...
- 3/6/2022
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
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