Israeli film festival 2020 introduces outstanding films to Vietnamese audience

Thứ Sáu, 06/11/2020, 15:45

PSNews - From November 13 to November 30, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City will host the Israel Film Festival 2020 which is expected to serve as a bridge for Vietnamese to get a closer insight into the people and culture of Israel, said Deputy Ambassador of Israel to Vietnam.

Recently, the Embassy of Israel in Vietnam announced that, within the Israeli film festival 2020, they will introduce Vietnamese audience six outstanding films of various genres, including art films, entertainment, drama, a children film and a short film.

The Festival’s movies were selected carefully with the aim to bring to the Vietnamese audience a true perspective on Israeli culture, life, and society. The films focus on humanism, reflecting family’s love, the desire to live and achieve, as well as efforts to find love despite considerable differences.

Three films including Shoelaces, The Farewell party, Apples from the desert and short film The Average Story all won Israeli Academy Awards or other international Jewish film festivals’ awards.

The Film Festival will especially reserve a screening for students of Hanoi SOS Village as a present to the children on the weekend holiday.

Israeli Ambassador to Vietnam, H.E. Nadav Eshcar says, “I strongly believe that cinema is like a window to the soul of a society. I invite our Vietnamese friends to look through this window, deep into the Israeli soul. I invite them to get to know us better”.

The Israel Film Festival 2020 will take place from November 13-16 in Hanoi and November 26-30 in Ho Chi Minh City.

The audience can get free admission tickets at the Office Hall on the ground floor of Hanoi Tower Building at 49 Hai Ba Trung Street, Hanoi (10 am to 1 pm on November 9-11); BHD Star Cineplex on the eighth floor of Vincom Centre at 2 Pham Ngoc Thach Street, Hanoi (10 am to 9 pm, from November 7); and at BHB Star Cineplex Bitexco and Icon 68 Trade Centre in Ho Chi Minh City (10 am to 9 pm, from November 21).

By Linh Bui