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Docfest 2016: “Realities Transformed”

Posted on 09/11/2016

18 – 20 Nov 2016
Goethe Institut

For the fourth year, DocLab and Goethe-Institut Hanoi are extremely proud to present our current edition of Hanoi DocFest – Vietnam’s only annual festival dedicated to independent creative documentaries and hybrid films.

Under this year’s theme “Realities Transformed”, the festival will showcase fresh documentary and experimental films coming mostly from Vietnam, but also Southeast Asia and Europe, that express and reflect contemporary life and society in exciting ways beyond conventional realism.

At DocFest 2016, you will be able to discover ideas personally close to the filmmakers as well as explore broader social issues through a series of films from Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Macao, Germany, France, and Portugal, and will also have a chance to meet and talk with the filmmakers.

This year’s program also expands to include new workshops and discussions: a two-day workshop with German filmmaker Philip Widmann on documentary and hybrid film development processes; a discussion on the representation of landscape in films with Tran Ngoc Hieu and Nguyen Trinh Thi; as well as panel talks with Indonesian curator Hafiz Rancajale and young and dynamic Vietnamese filmmakers such as Trương Minh Quý, Phạm Thu Hằng, Tạ Minh Đức, Phạm Ngọc Lân, Đỗ Văn Hoàng, Nguyễn Thị Thắm, and Trần Phương Thảo.

A long weekend of film screenings, discussions and dialogue exchange offers many opportunities to engage with contemporary Vietnamese cinema.

See detailed program here. Follow updates on Facebook event.

Free entrance

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