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Mini DocFest 2014

Posted on 14/10/2014

31 Oct – 02 Nov 2014 29 Oct – 04 Nov 2014
Goethe Institut

After the success of Mini DocFest 2012 and 2013, Hanoi DocLab and Goethe-Institute Hanoi are delighted to present the 3rd edition of the Mini DocFest 2014, highlighting new trends in creative documentaries by young Vietnamese filmmakers.

Documentary and fiction, narrative and abstract, film and poetry will cross paths at this festival weekend:

At the opening night, ‘Fiction Non Fiction Part I’ with Vietnamese short films with blurring boundaries between documentary and fiction, between film and video art, including Truong Que Chi’s ‘Black Sun’ – a winner at this year’s Oberhausen International Short Film Festival; Nguyen Thuy Tien’s ‘1953 Case’ combining documentary with performance; and Ta Minh Duc’s ‘Film No. 1’ mixing narrative and documentary elements, will show Hanoi audiences how far out of the documentary conventions our young filmmakers are willing to go.

On the second night, a program of latest productions of the DocLab Basic Workshop 2013 will provide an insight into the process of shaping a new generation of independent documentary and experimental filmmakers in Hanoi. These short films, telling stories with diverse styles and voices, continue Doclab’s tradition of exploring and developing diverse film languages of the individual.

Fittingly to the theme of the festival, Osaka-based German filmmaker Werner Penzel – who will be present in Hanoi during the festival to lead a film workshop at Doclab entitled “Haiku Happens” – will screen “Step Across the Border”, an avant-garde black & white 35mm documentary film which won “Best Documentary” at the European Film Awards in 1990, on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith.

On Sunday afternoon, ‘Fiction Non Fiction Part II’ with mixed-genre films, continuing to take the audience on imaginative journeys to Myanmar, Japan, India, and to the inner worlds, will be followed by Nguyen Thi Tham’s feature-length documentary “Madam Phung’s Last Journey”, centering around a group of traveling transvestite singers who spark fascination and hostility from the local people. This film, having been screened extensively at international film festivals worldwide, and received a “Special Mention” at ChopShots Documentary Film Festival Southeast Asia in Jakarta earlier this year, will showcase success stories for independent and socially engaged documentary production projects in Vietnam.

The Mini Doc Festival will close on Sunday night with Siu Pham’s experimental film “Homostratus” — which received the Best Unique Vision award at Queen World Film Festival this year in New York.

The program also includes other film activities including a panel discussion with invited Vietnamese independent and experimental filmmakers; a presentation led by the Film Study Group (FSG) on Chris Marker’s films; and a workshop on Independent Cinema with Siu Pham.

A special presentation of videos from Harun Farocki’s Hanoi workshop “Labor in a Single Shot” will commemorate the renown German filmmaker and video artist who passed away this past August. Farocki will continue to inspire our workshop participants and be dearly remembered by the Hanoi audience who came to see his innovative films in 2013.

An exciting weekend full of film screenings, debates and opportunities for exchange offers festival delights for everyone.

PROGRAM

From Wednesday, 29.10 to Friday, 31.10.2014
Haiku Happens – A filmmaking workshop by Werner Penzel

Thursday, 19h30, 30.10.2014
ATK – 73A Mai Hắc Đế – Hà Nội
Mini DocFest 2014 opening party
VAGABUNDEN KARAWANE (film screening + director Q&A with Werner Penzel)
music: LAFIDKI (live)
music: ALEX TASSEL (DJ)
TICKETS (available at doors):
50k (students with valid student IDs) / 80k

Friday, 31.10.2014

4 pm
Presentation and discussion with the Film Studies Group about “On personal Filmmaking”
Language: Vietnamese
(Venue: Room 402, House I, Đại Học Khoa học Xã Hội và Nhân Văn, Hà Nội)

7 pm
Opening
“Fiction Non Fiction, Part 1” – Short film program (95’)
Q&A with filmmakers after screening

1. Black Sun (12’55,Vietnam, 2013)
Director: Trương Quế Chi
Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

2. The light-being (Animation, 2’30, Vietnam, 2014)
Director: Nguyen Hoang Giang

3. Go ask the garden (8’57, Vietnam, 2014)
Director: Đồng Thảo
Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

4. Case 1953 (9’54, Vietnam, 2013)
Director: Nguyễn Thuỷ Tiên
Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

5. Let the ephemeral ecstasies fall into us and fill us up (34’33, Vietnam, 2014)
Director: Nhã Thuyên
Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

6. Film No. 1 (27’, Vietnam, 2013)
Director: Tạ Minh Đức
Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

Saturday, 01.11.2014

10 am
Panel discussion on how Vietnamese independent and experimental filmmakers create and pursue their own paths, with filmmakers Siu Pham, Nghiem Quynh Trang, Tran Phuong Thao, Nguyen Thi Tham, and Nguyen Trinh Thi. Moderated by Do Van Hoang.

2 pm
Film Study Group presents “Stories of the Image” 2: Chris Marker and Critical Thinking in Artistic Practice”
Language: Vietnamese

4 pm
Step across the border (90’, Germany and Switzerland, 1990)
Director: Nicolas Humbert & Werner Penzel
Language: English with Vietnamese Subtitles

Q&A with director Werner Penzel after the screening

7 pm
DOCLAB Basic Workshop Films 2013
Q&A with filmmakers after the screening

1. Amongst the Dawn (10’30)
Director: Hạnh
Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

2. Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (5’45)
Director: Quỳnh Anh
Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

3. As I Lie Dying (12’56)
Director: Phương Anh
Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

4. …that I Love and Admire (14’39)
Director: Hương Mai
Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

5. Blue Wall (15’)
Director: Mỹ Hằng
Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

6. Two-ish Years (15’)
Director: Cẩm Giang
Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

7. The Search (5’)
Director: Ngọc Anh
Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

Sunday, 02.11.2014

10.00 am
Series of selected Southeast Asian short films from ChopShots Jakarta 2014

1. Behind the scene (35’, Myanmar, 2013)
Director: Aung NwaiHtway
Subtitles: Vietnamese and English

2. Where I go (56’, Cambodia, 2013)
Director: Neang Kavich
Subtitles: Vietnamese and English

3. Another color tivi (8’, Indonesia, 2013)
Director: Yovista Ahtajida & Dyantini Adeline
Subtitles: English & Vietnamese

2 pm
“Fiction Non Fiction, Part 2” – short film program (80’)
Q&A with filmmakers after the screening

1. Maudlin Room (8’57, 2013)
Director: Đồng Thảo
Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

2. Travel with blue Balloon (8’47, 2014)
Director: Khổng Việt Bách
Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

3. Slowly Passing Trains (21’, 2014)
Director: Jamie MaxtoneGraham
Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

4. Jo Ha Kyu (10’45, 2012)
Director: Nguyễn Trinh Thi
Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

5. A Film on the Sofa (25’, 2012)
Director: Đỗ Văn Hoàng
Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

4.30 pm
Madame Phung‘s last journey (86’, Vietnam, 2014)
Director: Nguyễn Thị Thắm
Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

6 pm
Homostratus (77’, Vietnam, 2013)
Director: Siu Pham
Language: Vietnamese with English subtitle
Q&A with director Siu Pham after screening

Monday, 03.11 and Tuesday, 04.11.2014
6 pm – 9pm
Public workshop on independent cinema with filmmaker Siu Pham
Language: Vietnamese

For more information please visit: www.hanoidoclab.org