HANOI FOREIGN RELATION ACTIVITIES
The festival is an important event for the cinema industry, contributing to popularizing the image of Vietnam as a safe, friendly, hospitable, integrated and developed country.
The 7th Hanoi International Film Festival (HANIFF) will be held from November 7-11 gathering many international filmmakers.
With the theme "Cinema: Creativity - Take Off", the film festival is a meaningful and practical event to celebrate the country's major holidays and the 70th anniversary of the Liberation of the Capital (October 10, 1954-2024).
According to the event’s organizer, the festival is an important meeting place for Vietnamese and global film makers, allowing them to exchange ideas and form cooperation. It also is an opportunity for filmmakers to introduce their best creative works and honor the best of the talents in the industry.
HANIFF introduces and honors outstanding international and Vietnamese cinema works to domestic and foreign cinema lovers.
The festival is an important event for the cinema industry, contributing to popularizing the image of Vietnam as a safe, friendly, hospitable, integrated and developed country.
Besides presenting awards, the 7th HANIFF will also show out-of competition films, host seminars and film project markets and have some outdoor screenings.
There will be two seminars: "Spotlight on German Cinema", "Development of Film Production Exploiting Historical Themes and Adaptations from Literary Works".
The seminar "Spotlight on German Cinema" is expected to take place on November 8 with content including lessons learned from German film production; ways to exploit human, social and humanistic themes; analysis of creative multi-dimensional storytelling, current filmmaking trends in German cinema industry.
The second seminar will take place on November 9, including issues raised when adapting literary works to cinema; innovation in filmmakers' thinking when exploiting historical themes; solutions to elevate and develop film genres, and international experience.
A wide range of sidelines events will also be happening, including meeting movie stars and exhibitions introducing the cinema industries of Japan, Germany, Russia, China and South Korea, which are expected to take place at Tran Nhan Tong pedestrian street and Ly Thai To Garden.
HANIFF was first held in 2010 as one of many activities celebrating the 1,000th anniversary of Hanoi capital and since then it has been held biennially.
It aims to build a new film festival brand and affirm the position of Vietnamese cinema in international cinematography and attract the attention of world filmmakers to Vietnamese cinema.
Through its six editions, the festival is an event that attracts the attention of the domestic and international visitors to cinema, creating inspiration and motivation to build and develop the Vietnamese film industry as well as opportunities to expand the Vietnamese film market to the world and integrate it into the international film market.
At the last HANIFF there were 800 international and Vietnamese delegates from over 50 countries and territories with participation of 123 films including motion pictures, short films, documentaries and animation.
Award-winners included best film for Brazilian Paloma in the main official competition, the Jury Award for feature-length Woman on the Roof produced by Poland and Sweden, while the Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema (NETPAC) awards went to Bone Marrow and The Villain Kotrabid from the Philippines.
Ngo Minh