Fortunata is the story of a young mother with a failed marriage, who fights daily for her dream (Photo courtesy of the Wallonie-Bruxelles delegation in Vietnam) Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Fivefilms from Belgium’s Mons International Love Film Festival (FIFAMons) will be screened free of charge in Hanoi from September 21-24.
This screenings are beingorganised by the Wallonie-Bruxelles delegation in Vietnam, and the NationalDocumentary and Scientific Film Studio, following the success of the twoseasons of FIFA Mons held in Vietnam in 2016 and 2017.
Anne Lange, a representative forWallonie - Bruxelles in Vietnam, said the festival was a much-awaitedcultural event for Vietnamese audiences thanks to the high quality of thefilms.
“This year we will present morefilms in more genres than last year,” she said.
The audience will have a chanceto enjoy two tragedies, a comedy, an animation and a documentary. All of thefilms have been winners at international film festivals, she said.
Noces (A Wedding, 2016), a filmof Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Pakistan will start the festival.
Directed by Stephan Streker, thefilm is about Zahira, 18, who is close to her family until her parents ask herto follow Pakistani tradition to choose a husband. Torn between family customsand her western lifestyle, the young woman turns for help from her brother andconfidant Amir.
It stars Lina ElArabi, Sebastien Houbani and Babak Karimi. The film has wonvarious prizes at the Rotterdam International Film Festival (2017),Istanbul International Film Festival (2017), Lumiere Awards(France, 2018) and Cesar Awards (France, 2018).
I Am Not Your Negro is a2016 documentary film which won the British Academy of Film andTelevision Arts (BAFTA) Award for Best Documentary.
It is directed by RaoulPeck, based on James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript, Remember ThisHouse. Narrated by Samuel L Jackson, the film explores the historyof racism in the US through Baldwin’s reminiscences of civil rightsleaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King,Jr, as well as his personal observations of American history.
Fortunata (2017) tells thestory of a young mother (Jasmine Trinca) with a failed marriage behind her, whofights daily for her dream to open a hair salon, challenging her fate in aneffort to free herself and gain independence and the right to happiness.
Meanwhile, Lerd (A Man ofIntegrity) is a 2017 Iranian drama film about corruption andinjustice in Iranian society, directed by Mohammad Rasoulof. It wasscreened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2017 CannesFilm Festival where it won the main prize.
Especially for young audience,the animation Wake Up and Dream Again takes children on different adventuresduring a single film show.
One moonlit night, the Cinema owlflies onto a branch and greets the children from her perch. She tells them thatshe is a travelling storyteller who gathers the bedtime stories she overhearseach evening at children’s bedroom windows.
FIFA Mons was launched in 1984 inthe Wallonie region, Belgium. The festival first took place in 1985 and isorganised every two years.
The film festival will take placeas a celebration of the 25 year anniversary of the Wallonie-Bruxellesdelegation in Vietnam.
The films will be presented tothe audience at the Vietnam National Studio for Documentary ScientificFilms, 465 Hoang Hoa Tham Street, Hanoi.-VNS/VNA
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