3rd Hanoi International Film Festival explained

Opening:	Sivas
Location:	Hanoi, Vietnam
Founded:	2010
Awards:	Best Feature Film: Two Women
Host:	Anh Tuấn, Ngô Phương Lan Thu Hằng, Đức Bảo
Date:	November 23–27, 2014
Website:	Website
Chronology:	Hanoi International Film Festival
Preceded By:	2nd
Followed By:	4th

The 3rd Hanoi International Film Festival opened on November 23 and closed on November 27, 2014, at Hanoi Friendship Cultural Palace, with the slogan "Cinema - Integration and Sustainable Development" (Vietnamese: "Điện ảnh - Hội nhập và phát triển bền vững").^[1]

130 films from 33 countries were selected to be screened at the festival. In which, there will be 13 feature-length films and 30 short films participating in the competition.^[2]

Programs

Many activities took place within the framework of this film festival, including "The Film Project Market" which was held for the first time.^{[3] [4]}

Ceremonies - At Hanoi Friendship Cultural Palace, 91 Trần Hưng Đạo Street, Hoàn Kiếm District:

• Opening ceremony: 19:00, Sunday, November 23 (live broadcast on VTV1)^[5]
• Closing ceremony: 19:00, Thursday, November 27 (live broadcast on VTV1)^[6]

Professional Activities - At Hanoi Daewoo Hotel, 360 Kim Mã Street, Ba Đình District:

• Exhibition: To promote the filming scene and famous destinations of Vietnam (Vietnamese: "Quảng bá bối cảnh quay phim và những điểm đến nổi tiếng của Việt Nam"), opening 11:00, Sunday, November 23
• The HANIFF Campus: opening 9:00, Sunday, November 23, closing ceremony during 12:00-14:00 Thursday, November 27
  • Seminar during 9:00-12:00 Tuesday, November 25
• The Film Market Project: opening 9:00 Monday, November 24, closing 14:00 Tuesday, November 25
• Seminar: Film production cooperation between Vietnam and other countries (Vietnamese: "Hợp tác sản xuất phim giữa Việt Nam và các nước"), during 14:00-17:00 on Monday, November 24
• Seminar: Producing and Disseminating Independent Films - Experience from Philippine Cinema (Vietnamese: "Sản xuất và phổ biến phim độc lập - Kinh nghiệm từ điện ảnh Phi-líp-pin"), 15:00-17:00 Wednesday, November 26

Sightseeing and Themed night:

• Visiting Tràng An Scenic Landscape Complex, Ninh Bình Province, Tuesday, November 25
• Visiting Vietnamese Ethnology Museum, No. 01 Nguyễn Văn Huyên Street, Cầu Giấy District, 14:00, Wednesday, November 26
• The Hanoi Night Gala, 19:00, Wednesday, November 26 at Imperial Citadel of Thăng Long

Movie screenings in theaters and exchange program of artists with the audience:

• Showtimes: 9:00 - 23:00, November 23 to 27
• Theaters:
  • National Cinema Center, 87 Láng Hạ Street, Ba Đình District
  • Kim Đồng Cinema Theater, 19 Hàng Bài Street, Hoàn Kiếm District
  • August Cinema Theater, 45 Hàng Bài Street, Hoàn Kiếm District
  • CGV Cinemas, 6th floor, Hanoi Vincom Building, 191 Bà Triệu Street, Hai Bà Trưng District
  • CGV Cinemas, 5th floor, Mipec Tower, 229 Tây Sơn Street, Đống Đa District
• Tickets:All movie tickets at this festival are free, however, audiences will have to book 1 day in advance.^[7]

Juries & Mentors

Juries

Like previous years, 3 jury panels were established for this film festival:^[8]

Feature film:

• Kirill Razlogov, film critic, director of Cinema Institute for Cultural Study in Russia, Moscow International Film Festival programmer - Chairman
• Niv Fichman, producer
• Peque Gallaga, director
• Lee Doo-yong, director
• Hồng Ánh, actress, producer

Short film:

• Lê Lâm, art director, professor at IDHEC Film School (France) - Chairman
• Joe Bateman, Director of Rushes Soho Shorts Film Festival
• Bùi Thạc Chuyên, director, manager of The Center for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents (Vietnam Cinema Department)

Network for Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC):

• Jeannette Paulson Hereniko, television scriptwriter, producer, President of AsiaPacificFilms.com, founder of Hawaii International Film Festival - Chairman
• Hauvick Habéchian, film critic
• Lưu Nghiệp Quỳnh, screenwriter

Mentors for the HANIFF Campus

The HANIFF Campus consists of 3 classes: visual director class, screenwriter class and directing class. In addition, the creation camp also has seminars and specialized seminars to exchange experiences and expertise among filmmakers. Activities under the guidance and teaching of mentors:^[9]

• Joe Lawlor, producer, director, writer
• Cho Young-jik, cinematographer
• Uli Gaulke, director
• Allen Dizon, actor
• Nguyễn Hoàng Điệp, director

Official Selection - In Competition

Feature film

There are 11 films were selected to compete for the official awards in Feature Film category.^[10]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Camera	Camera	James Leong
Cinta/Mati	Cinta/Mati
Fish & Cat	ماهی و گربه / Mahi va Gorbeh
Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere	Đập cánh giữa không trung	Nguyễn Hoàng Điệp
Nagima	Нагима	Zhanna Issabayeva
The Children of the Village	Những đứa con của làng	Nguyễn Đức Việt
The Coffin Maker	Magkakabaung
The Voiding Soul	സ്വപാനം / Swapaanam
The Weight of Elephants	The Weight of Elephants
Two Women	Две женщины / Dve zhenshchiny
Way Back Home	집으로 가는 길 / Jibeuro Ganeun Gil

The double-dagger indicates films selected to compete for the NETPAC Award.

Highlighted title indicates Best Feature Film Award winner.

NETPAC

There are 2 films selected to compete only for the NETPAC Award along with 7 films from the Best Feature Film competing list.^[11]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Alone (Documentary Feature)	孤独 / Gudu	Wang Bing
The Singing Pond	හෝ ගානා පොකුණ / Ho Gaana Pokuna	Indika Ferdinando

Short film

These 30 short films were selected to compete for official awards in Short Film category:^[12] Short:

• A Farewell Party (13′)
• Cambodia 2099 (21′)
• Close, Open / Đóng vào, mở ra (22′)
• Curtain Call (8′)
• Enough (13′)
• Fighting For (19′)
• Gyges (21′)
• Herding (23′)
• Jack Boy / 잭보이 (19′)
• Red Stop (10′)
• Somewhere Only We Know / วันเวลาที่ผ่านเลยไป (20′)
• The Day After / Kinabukasan (17′)
• The Escapee / Trốn chạy (15′)
• The Girl from Tomorrow / 来自未来的陪伴 (14′)
• The Last Audition (15′)
• The Pool Man / 泳漾 (30′)
• Violin / WhyLean (15′)

Waiting For Colors / Menunggu Warna (12′)

• What's Out There? / Ngoài kia có gì (14′)

Documentary:

• Agraria Road / Lebuh Agraria (30′)
• André Menras - A Vietnamese / André Menras - Một người Việt (30′)
• I Sell Myself / Tôi đi bán tôi (16′)
• Light in the Air / Ánh sáng giữa tầng không (24′)
• Talking To My Best Friend / Trò chuyện với bạn thân (13′)
• The Last Public Letter Writer In Ho Chi Minh City / Người viết thư thuê cuối cùng ở Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh (19′)
• When I'd Come Back / Bao giờ về (15′)

Animated:

• Crack (7′)
• Mỵ Châu - Trọng Thủy (30′)
• Straw Man / Bù nhìn rơm (10′)
• The Tail of Lizard / Đuôi của thằn lằn (12′)

Highlighted title indicates Best Short Film Award winner.

Official Selection - Out of Competition

These films were selected for out-of-competition screening programs:^{[13] [14] [15]}

The dagger indicates films labeled NC 16

Opening

• Sivas – Kaan Müjdeci

Panorama: World Cinema

Feature film

• (Sex) Appeal / 寒蟬效應 – Wang Weiming
• Aimless / Lạc lối – Phạm Nhuệ Giang
• And a Verse Called Life / অনুব্রত ভালো আছো? – Partha Sen
• Broken / 방황하는 칼날 – Lee Jeong-ho
  • • / Брати. Остання сповідь – Viktoria Trofimenko Camille Claudel 1915 – Bruno Dumont Dubrovskiy / Дубровский – Kirill Mikhanovsky, Aleksandr Vartanov
• Gentle / Dịu dàng – Lê Văn Kiệt
• I'm Still / Sigo Siendo – Javier Corcuera
• I.D. – Kamal K. M.
  • Ilo Ilo / 爸媽不在家 – Anthony Chen Kami Histeria – Shamyl Othman
• Living With History / Sống cùng lịch sử – Nguyễn Thanh Vân
• Me, Myself and Mum / Les garçons et Guillaume, à table! – Guillaume Gallienne
  
• Melbourne / ملبورن – Nima Javidi
  • • • • Philomena – Stephen Frears Red Amnesia / 闯入者 – Wang Xiaoshuai Renoir – Gilles Bourdos Rise / Hương ga – Cường Ngô Shopping – Mark Albiston, Louis Sutherland
    • Soekarno – Hanung Bramantyo Star / Звезда – Anna Melikian The Isthmus / ที่ว่างระหว่างสมุทร – Sopawan Boonnimitra, Peerachai Kerdsint
      • • • • The Legend Makers / Những người viết huyền thoại – Bùi Tuấn Dũng The Paternal House / خانه پدری – Kianoush Ayari The Red Violin / Le Violon Rouge – François Girard The Sacred Arrow / 五彩神箭 – Pema Tseden The Selfish Giant – Clio Barnard Thread of Lies / 우아한 거짓말 – Lee Han Tunnel of Love: The Place for Miracles / クレヴァニ、愛のトンネル – Imazeki Akiyoshi

Documentary Feature film

• As Time Goes By in Shanghai – Uli Gaulke
• Jazz in Love – Baby Ruth Villarama
• Little Hanoi – Martina Saková
• Masked Monkey - The Evolution Of Darwin's Theory – Ismail Fahmi Lubish
• Sad Songs of Happiness – Constanze Knoche
• The Empire of Shame / 탐욕의 제국 – Hong Li-gyeong
  • The Missing Picture / L'Image manquante – Rithy Panh Thiện Nhân: The Human Flame / Lửa Thiện Nhân – Đặng Hồng Giang

Short film

Short:

• Backyard (12′)
• Chicken (15′)
• Glitch (4′)
• Nostalgia (4′)

Documentary:

• Dr. Tran Duy Hung - A Hanoian / Bác sĩ Trần Duy Hưng - Một người Hà Nội (32′)
• Hanoi In My Heart / Hà Nội Trong Tôi (29′)
• Moana: The Rising of the Sea (35′)
• Royal Recognition / Đạo sắc phong (30′)
• Stem Cell Application / Ứng dụng tế bào gốc (29′)
• The Encounter of the Dragon and the Clouds / Long vân khánh hội (35′)
• Travel To The Country That No Longer Exists (43′)

Animated:

• Beluga (2′)
• Birthday (3′)
• Bookends (3′)
• Broken Wand (3′)
• Butterfly Song (3′)
• Cigarette Smoke / Khói thuốc lá (10′)
• Fire Fin Leader / Thủ lĩnh vây lửa (10′)
• Monster (2′)
• Nexus (2′)
• Parcel Quest (2′)
• Plucking White Turnip / Nhổ củ cải (14′)
• Rhacophorus & Hylarana / Chẫu Chàng - Chẫu Chuộc (10′)
• Seed (2′)

Country-in-Focus: Philippines

For the Country-in-Focus Program this year, 6 Filipino independent films produced in 2013 were selected as follows:^[16]

• Lauriana – Mel Chionglo
• Otso – Elwood Perez
• Rekorder – Mikhail Red
• Sonata – Lore Reyes, Peque Gallaga
• Transit – Hannah Espia
• What Are the Colors of Forgotten Dreams? / Ano ang kulay ng mga nakalimutang pangarap? – Jose Javier Reyes

Contemporary Vietnamese Films

• Âm mưu giày gót nhọn / How to Fight in Six Inch Heels – Hàm Trần
  • Bước khẽ đến hạnh phúc / Gentle Steps to Happiness – Lưu Trọng Ninh Căn phòng của mẹ / Homostratus – Síu Phạm
    • • Đoạt hồn / Hollow – Hàm Trần Scandal: Hào quang trở lại / Scandal 2 – Victor Vu Hiệp sĩ mù / Blind Warrior – Lưu Huỳnh Lạc giới / Paradise in Heart – Phi Tiến Sơn
• Mùa hè lạnh / Cold Summer – Ngô Quang Hải
  • Nước 2030 / 2030 – Nguyễn Võ Nghiêm Minh Quả tim máu / Vengeful Heart – Victor Vu
• Thần tượng / The Talent – Nguyễn Quang Huy

Awards

The official awards were awarded at the closing ceremony of the festival, on the evening of October 31. The HANIFF Campus and Film Project Market organized their own awards ceremony for their participants before.^{[17] [18] [19] [20]}

In Competition - Feature film

• Best Feature Film: Two Women
  • Jury Prize for Feature Film: Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere
  • Other nominees: The Coffin Maker, Fish & Cat, The Weight of Elephants
• Best Director: Shahram Mokri – Fish & Cat
  • Other nominees: Vera Glagoleva – Two Women, Bang Eun-jin – Way Back Home
• Best Leading Actor: Allen Dizon – The Coffin Maker
  • Other nominees: Thanh Duy – Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere, Go Soo – Way Back Home
• Best Leading Actress: Anna Astrakhantseva – Two Women
  • Other nominees: Thùy Anh – Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere, Dina Tukubayeva – Nagima
• Special Mention for Child Actor: Demos Murphy – The Weight of Elephants

In Competition - Short film

• Best Short Film: Waiting for Colors – Adriyanto Dewo
  • Jury Prize for Short Film: What's Out There? – Nguyễn Diệp Thùy Anh
  • Other nominees: Herding – Ruslan Akun, Cambodia 2099 – Davy Chou, Crack – Ahn Yong-hae
• Best Young Director of a Short Film: Ruslan Akun – Herding
  • Other nominees: Trần Thế Khương – The Last Public Letter Writer In Ho Chi Minh City, Đỗ Quốc Trung – Close, Open

NETPAC Award

• NETPAC's Award for Asian Cinema Promotion: The Coffin Maker

The HANIFF Campus

• Best Student - D.O.P Class: Nguyễn Minh Tiến
• Best Student - Screenwriting Class: Nguyễn Thị Mỹ Trang
• Best Student - Directing Class: Shin-il

The Film Project Market

• Best Project: Honeygiver Among the Dogs – Dechen Roder
  • Jury Prize for Film Project: A Shade of Paradise – Síu Phạm

Notes and References

1. Web site: Khai mạc Liên hoan phim quốc tế Hà Nội 2014. nhandan. November 23, 2014.
2. Web site: Liên hoan phim quốc tế Hà Nội lần 3: Kỳ vọng phim Việt. nld. November 23, 2014.
3. Web site: Chương trình Liên hoan phim. Vietnamese . haniff.vn . 2014-12-07 . 2014-12-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141207214107/http://www.haniff.vn/lien-hoan-phim.html . 7 December 2014 . dead .
4. Web site: Liên hoan phim quốc tế Hà Nội 2014: Những “món ngon” vẫn còn trong bí mật. nhandan. October 15, 2014.
5. Web site: Ngô Phương Lan làm MC đêm khai mạc LHP Quốc tế HN. vnExpress. November 23, 2014.
6. Web site: "Đập cánh giữa không trung" chinh phục BGK LHP quốc tế Hà Nội 2014. vtv.vn. November 27, 2014.
7. Web site: Liên hoan phim quốc tế Hà Nội 2014: Phim Việt đánh bật phim ngoại. giadinh.net. November 28, 2014.
8. Web site: Liên hoan phim Quốc tế Hà Nội 2014: Lộ diện chủ nhà. thegioidienanh.vn. November 5, 2014.
9. Web site: Khai mạc Trại sáng tác Liên hoan Phim quốc tế Hà Nội. toquoc.vn. November 23, 2014.
10. Web site: Phim dài dự thi. Vietnamese . haniff.vn . 2014-12-03 . 2014-12-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141203110154/http://www.haniff.vn/phim-du-thi/phim-dai.html . 3 December 2014 . dead .
11. Web site: Haniff 2014: Ẩn số giải thưởng. thegioidienanh.vn. November 21, 2014.
12. Web site: Phim ngắn dự thi. Vietnamese . haniff.vn . 2014-11-21 . 2014-11-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141121172617/http://www.haniff.vn/phim-du-thi/phim-ngan.html . 21 November 2014 . dead .
13. Web site: Điện ảnh thế giới. Vietnamese . haniff.vn . 2014-11-21 . 2014-11-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141121155044/http://www.haniff.vn/phim-du-thi/world-cinema.html . 21 November 2014 . dead .
14. Web site: 6 phim Pháp tham gia Liên hoan phim Quốc tế Hà Nội 2014 (HANIFF). hanoigrapevine. November 18, 2014.
15. Web site: Nhiều phim 16+ tranh giải ở LHP Quốc tế Hà Nội 2014. vov.vn. November 13, 2014.
16. Web site: Tiêu điểm Điện ảnh. Vietnamese . haniff.vn . 2014-11-21 . 2014-11-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141121160011/http://www.haniff.vn/phim-du-thi/tieu-diem-dien-anh.html . 21 November 2014 . dead .
17. Web site: Bế mạc Liên hoan Phim quốc tế Hà Nội lần thứ 3. bvhttdl.gov.vn. November 28, 2014.
18. Web site: Học viên xuất sắc Trại sáng tác HANIFF được đi LHP Berlin. vnExpress. November 27, 2014.
19. Web site: "NGƯỜI ĐƯA MẬT ONG" VÀ GIẢI THƯỞNG 10.000 USD TẠI LHP QUỐC TẾ HÀ NỘI. dep.com.vn. November 25, 2014.
20. Web site: Điện ảnh Việt Nam hội nhập thế giới. daibieunhandan.vn. November 28, 2014.