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Hello, Goodbye Little Brother will make
debut to Vietnamese audience during Korean Film Festival in
Vietnam
Nhan Dan Online- The
Korean Film Festival in Vietnam will open on May 31 and last
for four days at the National Convention Hall on the occasion
of 15th anniversary of the diplomatic relations
between Vietnam and the Republic of Korea.
Six feature films will
be on screen during the festival. They include 200 Pound
Beauty; Radio Star; Hello, Goodbye Little
Brother; I’m a Cybord but That’s Ok; The Host;
and the King and the Clown. According to the RoK
Embassy in Vietnam, these films have received acclaim from
audiences at home and abroad and have also seriously selected
for the screening in the festival.
In the film The Host.
The two films The
Host and The King and The Clown in the festival
have attracted 10 million people, making a record in the box
office in Korea. They are also considered ones of the best
Korean films.
Not only being
attractive by a new theme, the fictitous The Host bears
a profound significance on the close relations between members
in the family, particularly between father and children.
Directed by Park Chan-Wook,
one of the talented directors of Korea, the film I’m a
Cybord but That’s Ok was honoured a special prize at the
Berlin Film Festival.
Particularly, 500
tickets of Hello, Goodbye Little Brother will be freely
provided to the Vietnamese orphanages. The film is a moving
story on brotherliness of the 9 year old boy Han Yi with his
elder brother who suffers leukocyte. The organisers said they
will also have a small party for those disadvantaged children
before the film screening.
The festival, jointly organised by the
Seoul newspaper, the Embassy of Republic of Korea in Vietnam,
The Korean Culture Centre in Vietnam, and the Vietnam Ministry
of Culture and Information, will have the performance of
renowned singers, artists and film directors of Vietnam and
Korea.
The film festival’s
opening ceremony will have the attendance of director Park
Chan-wook, the owner of the two films Old Boy and
Friendly Kưmja which won jury’s prize of the Cannes Film
Festival 2004 and actress Kim A Jung, who are elected one of
the most beautiful actresses in Korea.
Before the opening
ceremony (at 8.30pm), there will be a music programme to
celebrate the film festival (at 7pm) with the performance of
Korean Lee Jung Hyun, No Brain Rock Band, Han-ul So-ri
percussion band and Vietnamese pop diva Thanh Lam, singer Ngo
Thanh Van and Big Toe Dance Group.
The Embassy of the
Republic of Korea also revealed that 1,000 tickets for each
film will be provided free-of-charge for readers of the web
www.hanquocngaynay.com during two days, 22 and 23-5.
By DIEU THUY |
