4th Hanoi International Film Festival
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| Opening film | I, Daniel Blake   |
|---|---|
| Location | Hanoi, Vietnam |
| Founded | 2010 |
| Awards | Best Feature Film: Remember  |
| Hosted by | Ái Phương, Đức Bảo |
| Festival date | November 1–5, 2016 |
| Website | Website |
The 4th Hanoi International Film Festival opened on November 1 and closed on November 5, 2016, at Hanoi Friendship Cultural Palace, with the slogan "Cinema - Integration and Sustainable Development" (Vietnamese: "Điện ảnh - Hội nhập và phát triển bền vững").[1]
From more than 500 films submitted, 146 films from 33 countries were selected for screening, of which 12 long films and 30 short films participated in the competition.[2]
Ceremonies - At Hanoi Friendship Cultural Palace, 91 Trần Hưng Đạo Street, Hoàn Kiếm District:
- Opening ceremony: 20:00 Tuesday, November 1 (live broadcast on VTV2)[3]
- Closing ceremony: 20:00 Saturday, November 5 (live broadcast on VTV1)[4]
Professional activities - At Hanoi Daewoo Hotel, 360 Kim Mã Street, Ba Đình District:
- Exhibition of Vietnam Film Institute: Vietnamese context in foreign films (Vietnamese: "Bối cảnh Việt Nam trong phim nước ngoài"), from Tuesday morning, November 1 to November 5[5]
- The HANIFF Campus and The Film Project Market: from Tuesday morning, November 1 to Friday evening, November 4. This year, these two activities are held in parallel.[6]
- Seminars:
- Film showcase reception of The Way Station / Đảo của dân ngụ cư, directed by Hồng Ánh[9]
Movie screenings in theaters: 6 cinemas in Hanoi participated in screening the film during the 5 days of the festival. The National Cinema Center is the only place to issue tickets for all cinema clusters, starting from October 29. All screenings are free.[10][11]
- National Cinema Center (87 Láng Hạ Street) has 75 screenings with contested films of the two most important categories, which are contested feature-length films and contested short films. There are also Asean films, Indian films, films in the World Cinema Panorama program.
- Opening screenings: Tuesday afternoon, November 1, instead after the opening ceremony as before[12]
- August Theater and Kim Đồng Theater (45 and 19 Hàng Bài Street) have 50 screenings, of which 28 are for Vietnamese films, 5 for Italian films and 17 for films in the World Cinema Panorama program.
- Ngọc Khánh Theater (523 Kim Mã Street) has 24 screenings, of which 3 are for short films, 3 for Vietnamese films, 6 for films in the World Cinema Panorama program, 7 for Asean films, 5 for Italian movies.
- CGV Cinemas, 6th floor, Vincom Center, 54A Nguyễn Chí Thanh Street
- CGV Cinemas, 5th floor, Mipec Tower, 229 Tây Sơn Street
Outdoor movie screenings and shows - At Lý Thái Tổ Monument Square, Hoàn Kiếm District:[13][14]
- Movie Miracle in Milan
with Italian fashion show by designer Riccardo Bianco: Wednesday night, November 2 - Documentary SMTown: The Stage
and the exchange with Korean singer Jis and Juni from the group Offroad: Thursday night, November 3 - Movie Taxi, What’s Your Name? / Taxi, em tên gì?
with the Ao dai fashion show by designer Lan Hương: Friday night, November 4
Juries & Mentors
Juries
3 juries panels were established for this festival:[15]
Feature film:
- Régis Wargnier
, director, producer, screenwriter - Chairman - Geraldine Chaplin
, actress - Adoor Gopalakrishnan
, director, screenwriter, producer - Iza Calzado
, actress - Đào Bá Sơn , director
Short film:
- Maxine Williamson
, Artistic Director of Asia Pacific Screen Awards and Brisbane International Film Festival - Chairman - Philip Cheah
, film critic, founder of Singapore International Film Festival - Nguyễn Thị Phương Hoa , animation director, animator
Network for Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC):
- Ed Lejano , director, producer, managing director of QCinema International Film Festival - Chairman
- Udi Aloni
, filmmaker, writer, visual artist - Đoàn Minh Tuấn , screenwriter, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Thế Giới Điện Ảnh Magazine
Mentors for the HANIFF Campus
Classes at the HANIFF Campus this year received instruction from:[16]
- Jo Sung-hee , director
- Kwon Seung-hwi , screenwriter
- Maike Mia Höhne
, Head of Berlinale Shorts of the Berlin International Film Festival
Official Selection - In Competition
Feature film
These 12 films were selected to compete for the official awards in Feature Film category:[17][18]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birds with Large Wings | വലിയ ചിറകുള്ള പക്ഷികൾ / Valiya Chirakulla Pakshikal | Dr. Biju |  |
| Blossoming Into a Family | 惑う After the Rain / Madou: After the Rain | Hayashi Hiroki |  |
| Cemetery of Splendour † | รักที่ขอนแก่น / Rak Ti Khon Kaen | Apichatpong Weerasethakul |  |
| Fundamentally Happy † | 本质上快乐 | Lei Yuan Bin, Tan Bee Thiam |  |
| Green Carriage † | Зелёная карета / Zelyonaya Kareta | Oleg Assadulin |  |
| Inadaptable † | عادت نمی کنیم / Adat Nemikonim | Ebrahim Ebrahimian |  |
| Jackpot | Trúng số | Dustin Nguyễn |  |
| Marguerite | Marguerite | Xavier Giannoli |   |
| One Way Trip † | 글로리데이 / Geulroridei (Glory Days) | Choi Jeong-yeol |  |
| Ordinary People † | Pamilya ordinaryo | Eduardo Roy Jr. |  |
| Remember † | Remember | Atom Egoyan | |
| Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass | Tôi thấy hoa vàng trên cỏ xanh | Victor Vu | |
- The dagger † indicates films labeled NC 16
- Highlighted title indicates Best Feature Film Award winner.
Short film
These 30 short films were selected to compete for official awards in Short Film category, divided into 5 screening sessions as follows:[19][20]
Session 1:
- Mr. Mirror Man (Animated, 10′)
- Three Variations on Ofelia (15′)
- The Bridge (18′)
- Love Comes Later (10′)
- A New Home (15′)
- I Love Anna (11′)
- Young Mother on Vài Thai Peak / Người mẹ trẻ trên đỉnh Vài Thai (Docu., 29′)
Session 2:
- Suspendu (15′)
- To the Top (17′)
- Day Before Chinese New Year (Documentary, 23′)
- God Must Be Deaf (Animated, 8′)
- Sweet Bloom of Nighttime Flower (15′)
- Dedicated to Grandpa Điều / Dành tặng ông Điều (Documentary, 23′)
Session 3:
- Study of a Singaporean Face (Documentary, 4′)
- Heart of the Land (Documentary, 30′)
- Distance Between Us (27′)
- Different (6′)
- Seide (12′)
- Another City / Một thành phố khác (25′)
Session 4:
- Sibol (18′)
- Agus and Agus (16′)
- Kousayla (20′)
- The Moon of Seoul (22′)
- Everlasting Hope / Vọng phu nơi đầu sóng (Documentary, 30′)
Session 5:
- White Cat and Black Cat / Mèo Trắng và Mèo Mun (Animated, 10′)
- The Surfaces / Những mặt phẳng (Animated, 10′)
- The Sunflower / 'Bông hoa mặt trời (Animated, 10′)
- Aspiration for Life / Khát vọng người (Documentary, 28′)
- Pleco Fish / Cá dọn bể (13′)
- Tomorrow / Ngày mai (15′)
- Highlighted title indicates Best Short Film Award winner.
Official Selection - Out of Competition
These films were selected for out-of-competition screening programs:[21][22][23]
- The dagger † indicates films labeled NC 16
Opening
Panorama: World Cinema
Feature film
- 3 Heroines / 3 Srikandi – Iman Brotoseno
- 3/4 – Maike Mia Höhne
- All of a Sudden / Auf Einmal – Aslı Özge †
- Candy Boys / お江戸のキャンディー – Reona Hirota
† - Certified Dead – Marrie Lee
- Cinemawala / সিনেমাওয়ালা – Kaushik Ganguly
- Destiny / 喜禾 – Zhang Wei
- Drought and Lies / دروغ, فیلم خشکسالی و دروغ – Pedram Alizadeh
- Fate of a Man / Судьба человека – Sergei Bondarchuk
- I Am Nojoom, Age 10 and Divorced / أنا نجوم بنت العاشرة ومطلقة – Khadija al-Salami
- Immortality / جاودانگی – Mehdi Fard Ghaderi
- Indochine – Régis Wargnier
- Invisible / Imbisibol – Lawrence Fajardo
- Junction 48 / ג'נקשן 48 – Udi Aloni †
- Lantouri / لانتوری – Reza Dormishian
- Lenin Park / Parque Lenin – Itziar Leemans, Carlos Mignon
- Let Her Cry / ඇගේ ඇස අග – Asoka Handagama †
- Lost Daughter / 台灣電影網 – Chen Yujie
- Louder Than Bombs – Joachim Trier
† - Love, Supermoon – Wan Hasliza Wan Zainuddin
- Love, Lies / 해어화 – Park Heung-sik
- Masaan / मसान – Neeraj Ghaywan
- My Skinny Sister / Min lilla syster – Sanna Lenken
- Nakom – Kelly Daniela Norris, T. W. Pittman
- News from Planet Mars / Des nouvelles de la planète Mars – Dominik Moll
- Next to Me / Pored mene – Stevan Filipović
† - Paradise Trips – Raf Reyntjens
- Paths of the Soul / གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ (冈仁波齐) – Zhang Yang (Documentary)
- River / ང་པོ། (河) – Sonthar Gyal
- Shadow Kill / നിഴൽക്കുത്ത് – Adoor Gopalakrishnan
- Southside with You – Richard Tanne
- Son of Saul / Saul fia – László Nemes
† - Sunka Raku / Sunka Raku: Alegría Evanescente – Hari Sama (Documentary)
- Tandem – King Palisoc †
- The Brand New Testament / Le Tout Nouveau Testament – Jaco Van Dormael
† - Timgad – Fabrice Benchaouche
- Walnut Tree / Жаңғақ тал – Yerlan Nurmukhambetov
- Wastelands – Miriam Heard
- White Lies, Black Lies / 失控謊言 – Lou Yian
- Wolf Totem / 狼图腾 – Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Yen's Life / Cuộc đời của Yến – Đinh Tuấn Vũ
Short film
Berlinale Shorts: Session 1
- A Man Returned (30′) †
- Freud and Friends (30′)
† - Ten Meter Tower / Hopptornet (17′) †
- In the Soldier's Head (Animated, 4′) †
- Moms On Fire (Animated, 13′) †
Berlinale Shorts: Session 2
- Batrachian's Ballad / Balada de um Batráquio (Documentary, 11′) †
- Love (Animated, 15′) †
- Personne (15′) †
- Reluctantly Queer (8′) †
- Jin Zhi Xia Mao / Anchorage Prohibited (Documentary, 16′) †
7 Letters: Singaporean Session
- Cinema (20′)
- That Girl (18′)
- The Flame (17′)
- Bunga Sayang (12′)
- Pineapple Town (15′)
- Parting (12′)
- GPS (Grandma Position System) (23′)
World-wide Session
- When the Heron Flies (18′)
- Barnyard Acer (Animated, 15′)
- The Last Supper (6′)
- Pickman's Model (Animated, 11′)
- Operation Commando (21′)
- Zéro m2 (19′)
- The Dog's Lullaby (10′)
- A Halt (6′)
- The Teacher and Flowers / El maestro y la flor (Animated, 9′)
- Returned (12′)
Country-in-Focus: India
- Brother Bajrangi / Bajrangi Bhaijaan – Kabir Khan (2015)
- In Greed We Trust / Moh Maya Money – Munish Bhardwaj (2016)
- Interrogation / Visaranai – Vetrimaaran (2015) †
- Sohra Bridge – Bappaditya Bandopadhyay (2016)
- The Quest / Pather Sandhan – Sikta Biswas (2016)
Country-in-Selection: Italy
- Caterina in the Big City / Caterina va in città – Paolo Virzì (2003)
- Journey to Italy / Viaggio in Italia – Roberto Rossellini (1954)
- Me, Them and Lara / Io, loro e Lara – Carlo Verdone (2010)
- Miracle in Milan / Miracolo a Milano – Vittorio De Sica (1951)
- Rocco and His Brothers / Rocco e i suoi fratelli– Luchino Visconti (1960)
ASEAN Films
- Above It All / ນ້ອຍ (Noy) – Anysay Keola
- Coffee Philosophy / Filosofi Kopi – Angga Dwimas Sasongko
- Diamond Island / កោះពេជ្រ – Davy Chou
- Jagat / ஜாகட் – Shanjey Kumar Perumal
- The Island Funeral / มหาสมุทรและสุสาน (Maha samut lae susaan) – Pimpaka Towira
- The Return / 回乡 – Green Zeng
- Water Lemon – Lemuel Lorca
- What's So Special About Rina? / Ada Apa Dengan Rina – Harlif Haji Mohamad, Farid Azlan Ghani
- Zodiac 12: Five Steps of Love / 12 chòm sao: Vẽ đường cho yêu chạy – Vũ Ngọc Phượng
Contemporary Vietnamese Films
- Bao giờ có yêu nhau / I'll Wait – Dustin Nguyễn
- Chàng trai năm ấy / Dandelion – Nguyễn Quang Huy
- Cô hầu gái / The Housemaid – Derek Nguyen
- Em là bà nội của anh / Sweet 20 – Phan Gia Nhật Linh
- Mỹ nhân / Beautiful Woman – Đinh Thái Thụy
- Nhà tiên tri / The Prophecy – Vương Đức
- Người trở về / Returnee – Đặng Thái Huyền
- Nữ đại gia / The Rich Woman – Lê Văn Kiệt
- Quyên / Farewell, Berlin Wall – Nguyễn Phan Quang Bình
- Taxi, em tên gì? / Taxi, What's Your Name? – Đỗ Đức Thịnh, Đinh Tuấn Vũ
- Tấm Cám: Chuyện chưa kể / Tam Cam: The Untold Story – Ngô Thanh Vân
- Thầu Chín ở Xiêm / Ho Chi Minh in Siam – Bùi Tuấn Dũng
- Trên đỉnh bình yên / On the Peaceful Peak – Hữu Mười
- Truy sát / Tracer – Cường Ngô
- Yêu / Love – Việt Max
Outdoor Screening
- SMTown: The Stage – Bae Sung-sang (Documentary)
