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A scene from "Floating Life"
Photo: Tuoi Tre
Vietnamese movies “Floating life” (Canh Dong Bat Tan) and “Bi, Don’t be afraid!” (Bi, dung so!) will be screened at the 15th Pusan International Film Festival in Korea next month.
Listed among 12 movies from 10 countries competing for the US$30,000 New Currents Award is “Floating life,” adapted from a short story by ASEAN Literature Award winner Nguyen Ngoc Tu and directed by Nguyen Phan Quang Binh, a winner of the 2006 Pusan Promotion Plan award.
It depicts the tragic life of farmers in southern Vietnam trying to earn a livelihood. The movie opens in Vietnamese cinemas October 22.
“Bi, don’t be afraid,” directed by Phan Dang Di, will compete in “A window for Asian cinema” category. It is about the life of a family living in Hanoi’s Old Quarter through the eye of a six-year-old boy, Bi.
The movie won the best screenplay prize and a critics’ award at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
This year’s Pusan festival has attracted 308 entries from 67 countries, with more than half of them premiering at the event.
The jury will have leading lights from around the world like Sean Farnet (Canada), Murali Nair (India), Remi Bonhomme (France), and John Cooper (America).
French actress Juliette Binoche, English actress Jane March, Japanese actresses Yoshitaka Yuriko and Miyazaki Aoi, and American director Oliver Stone will attend the festival to be held from October 7 to 15.
