Hanoi International Film Festival (HANIFF) 2016

HANIFF Film Festival: 01 – 05 Nov 2016
Several cinemas around Ha Noi

From Goethe Institut:

Movie lovers can look forward to the Hanoi International Film Festival (HANIFF) again. From November 1-5, 2016, international movie highlights will be presented. Upon the invitation of the Goethe-Institut, director Maike Mia Höhne, curator of the Berlinale Shorts since 2007, will present her new movie “Three-quarters”. At the film festival, Maike Mia Höhne will also direct a workshop for young movie makers at HANIFF Campus.

HANIFF (Hanoi International Film Festival) is organized every two years by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism as well as the Vietnam Cinema Department. In 2016, the festival takes place under the theme “cinema – integration and sustainable development” and focuses on Canadian and Italian movies. Outstanding works will be honored and awarded in different categories. 12 movies produced in 13 countries as well as 30 short films from 18 different countries are participating in the competition.

Alongside the festival, the platform HANIFF Campus is being organized which gives young talents the opportunity for exchange with professional movie makers, widening their horizon and overthinking their current views. HANIFF Campus takes place over a period of six days and offers different program elements to directors, producers and script writers. Directors, actors, camera men and women, producers, editors etc. are equally invited to join the discussions, talks, workshops and seminars. For further information regarding conditions and registration see here

For screening schedule and film information and general information about HANIFF, please check their website.

At HANIFF 2016, Goethe-Institut will present short films from Berlinale and “Three-quarters” by Maike Mia Höhne.

The Berlin International Film Festival, more commonly known as Berlinale, ranks among the most important film festivals in the world. Movies of all genres, lengths and formats are awarded. Since 2007, the Berlinale Shorts also awards prizes to short films, mostly works of talented young artists.

BERLINALE SPOTLIGHT – PROGRAM I

1.11.2016, 3:15 PM
CGV Vincom Nguyen Chi Thanh
56 Nguyen Chi Thanh, Hanoi

3.11.2016, 1 PM
Ngoc Khanh Cinema
523 Kim Ma, Hanoi

A MAN RETURNED
Great Britain/Denmark/Netherlands 2015, 30‘, director: Mahdi Fleifel
After three years in Athens, Reda returns to the biggest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. Now, he finally wants to get married. With drugs. With war. With confidence.

ANOTHER CITY
Vietnam 2016, 25‘, director: Pham Ngoc Lan
The protagonists are looking for like-minded people and a community. A well-known Asian pop song connects the protagonists regardless time and space.

FREUD UND FRIENDS
Portugal/Switzerland 2015, 23‘, director: Gabriel Abrantes
In the dream laboratory of the Champalimaud Centre of the Unknown the dreams of Abrantes turn real. A baroque journey into the world of It and the movie starts.

HOPPTORNET
Sweden 2016, 17‘, directors: Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck
The experimental arrangement of the movie is similar to that of a physical experiment. Swimming pool. Inside. Day. 10 meter tower. What takes more courage – to jump or to crawl back down backwards?

IN THE SOLDIER‘S HEAD
USA/France 2015, 4’, director: Christine Rebet
Immediately from the core of imagination, invisible thoughts transform into concrete experiences on the canvas. Synapses of a hyperactive psyche – converted on paper.

MOMS ON FIRE
Sweden 2016, 12‘, director: Joanna Rytel
Two women are sitting on a couch and are scratching their pregnant tummies. Four days are left until delivery. The situation can neither be blandished nor endured.

BERLINALE SPOTLIGHT – PROGRAM II

3.11.2016, 3 PM
CGV Vincom Nguyen Chi Thanh
54A Nguyen Chi Thanh, Hanoi

4.11.2016, 1 PM
Ngoc Khanh Cinema
523 Kim Ma, Hanoi

BALADA DE UN BATRÁQUIO
Portugal 2016, 11’, director: Leonor Teles
Using a fairytale about the relationships in the animal world the director connects the sad destiny of frogs and Roma people.

JIN ZHI XIA MAO
Taiwan 2015, 16’, director: Chiang Wei Liang
A young couple and their newborn are trying to get through their daily life in Taiwan with almost no financial means.

LOVE
France/Hungary 2016, 14’, director: Réka Bucsi
In a surreal universe, the director illustrates the various forms of love in three phases. In the end, everything shatters within itself.

PERSONNE
Germany 2016, 15’, director: Christoph Girardet
Fragmentary images show the protagonists in younger and older years. The gaps in between have to be filled by the audience.

RELUCTANTLY QUEER
Ghana/USA 2016, 8’, director: Akosua Adoma Owusu
A young man from Ghana is writing a letter to his mother. He is looking and asking for reconciliation, is hoping for acceptance, even though he loves another man.

MAIKE MIA HÖHNE: THREE QUARTERS

5.11.2016, 9:30 AM
National Cinema
87 Lang Ha, Hanoi

5.11.2016, 3 PM
August Kino
45 Hang Bai, Hanoi

The film deals with Sabine and Michael who are both in their 40s living in Hamburg. Michael has a child resulting from an earlier relationship with whom Sabine gets along well but she desires to have her own child with Michael, too. He goes along with the wish and Sabine gets pregnant – the new heart is beating and defines the rhythm. But shortly afterwards she is losing her child. When Sabine realizes that Michael actually does not want a child the couple faces big challenges. In a sensitive and honest way Maike Mia Höhne portrays two people with different desires and future plans.

TICKETS: Free tickets for German films at HANIFF 2016 are distributed from 9 am Monday 31 Oct at Goethe-Institut and equivalent cinemas.