The event will be held by the Department of Cinema under Vietnam’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in coordination with the Korean Film Council to celebrate the 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and the RoK.
Accordingly, three Vietnamese films, including “Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass,” “Yen’s Life” and “Quyen” will be shown.
The festival will open with “Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass,” a coming-of-age film set in the Vietnamese countryside in the late 1980’s. The film, based on the bestselling novel of the same name, has been submitted to the Best Foreign Language Film category at this year’s 89th Academy Awards. Victor Vu, the director, is a Vietnamese-American director and screenwriter who has been the recipient of awards and commercial success in Vietnam.
Next up is a screening of “Yen’s Life” on January 13th. The film won the grand festival prize at the World Premieres Film Festival in Manila, the Philippines, in 2016. At the screening, audiences will have the chance to meet with director Tuan Vu Dinh and other members of the cast.
A scence in the film "Yen's life"
Finally, the crime-drama “Farewell, Berlin Wall,” also known as “Quyen,” will be screened on January 14th. The film, adapted from an eponymous Vietnamese novel by Nguyen Van Tho, tells the story of a woman from Hanoi and her husband who flee from Russia to Germany in search of their promised land. Last year, the film won the Vietnamese Golden Kite Award for Best Feature Film.
There will be also a Korean-Vietnamese fashion show, an exhibition on film locations across Vietnam, and a networking conference for directors, producers, and other members of the film industry from the two countries./.