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German Film Festival in Vietnam 2014

Posted on 12/08/2014

Hà Nội: 04 – 11 Sep 2014 | National Cinema Center
HCMC: 05 – 12 Sep 2014 | CINEBOX
Hải Phòng: 05 – 07 and 12 – 14 Sep 2014 | Rap chieu bong Cong nhan
Huế: 11 – 17 Sep 2014 | Center for Culture & Information
Đà Nẵng: 12 – 14 and 19 – 21 Sep 2014 | Le Do Cinema
Thái Nguyên: 15 – 20 Sep 2014 | Data Centre, Thai Nguyen University

Beginning of September it is “Showtime!” again at the German Film Festival in Vietnam! After the overwhelming success of last years´ festivals with more than 50.000 visitors the Goethe-Institut opens the German Film Festival for the 5th time on 4th of September 2014 in Vietnam’s captial. A wide selection of last year’s most popular German films will be shown in Hanoi, Hai Phong, Hue, Da Nang, HCMC and Thai Nguyen. Once more the German Film Festival offers the Vietnamese audience the opportunity to get to know Germany from different perspectives and dive into the German film landscape via the silver screen.

In 2014 German films take up current topics about family ties and responsibility, home and identity and love and friendship. This year’s German Film Festival in Vietnam offers the audience a selection of 10 film highlights from renowned directors and with popular German actors. A taste of the films offers the Festival Trailer 2014.

At the opening in Hanoi, Hue, Da Nang and HCMC we will welcome the filmmakers of the opening film “The Visitors” Mrs Constanze Knoche and Mr Leis Bagdach as special guests from Berlin and look forward to a lively Q&A with them.

The Festival Films:

This year’s films are all about family! In our opening film The Visitors Jakob’s surprising visit forces his three grown-up children to revisit their relationship to each other and their parents and finally take responsibility for themselves.

The tense relationship between father and son is at the heart of the film Exit Marrakech which unfolds in the breathtaking landscape of Marocco.

Christine and Konrad both want to build a career and be good parents. Whether this modern concept of raising a family works or not questions the film Parents.

In the Taste of Apple Seeds, Iris inherits the house of her grandmother and with it the memories of three generations of women.

Two lives is a thrilling drama telling the story of Katrine who has built a family in Norway, but this peaceful life is threatened by her past when the Berlin Wall falls.

The thought-provoking drama Colours of the Ocean tells the story of Nathalie who wants to help the refugee Zola and his son, but unintentionally causes a tragedy. Another film about social issues and responsibility is Broken Glass Park, a coming of age drama about Sascha, a young woman who is dealing with her mother’s murder while searching for the place she belongs to.

Creating a more uplifting mood, the comedy Fack Ju Göthe will make you laugh to tears while also casting doubt on conventional teaching methods at school.

Entertainment for the whole family is not missing either: The Little Ghost takes our younger audience on its adventure in this animated childrens’ film.

For fantasy fans Ruby Red is a must as it follows Gwendolyn on her time travel to London at the end of the 19th century where she shall solve the biggest mystery of her family.

The German Film Festival 2014 promises a great selection of films with many exciting, moving and inspiring moments for film lovers and for the whole family.

Film schedule in Hanoi:

Tickets for all films are free.

IN HANOI: Free tickets at: Goethe-Institut Hanoi from Mon 25 Aug 2014, 12 pm (noon).Tel. (04) 37 34 22 51/52/53 (ext. 9)

Please also take part in our film quiz! Answer questions about the films which will be screened at the festival and with a bit of luck you can win amazing prizes. For the quiz and more information on the complete schedule in all cities visit here.