Latin American films to entertain Hanoians

The event is co-organised by several Latin American embassies, including the embassies of Argentina, Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela.

Venezuelan Ambassador, Jorge Rondón Uzcategui, said the film week aims to bring Latin American cinema and culture closer to Vietnamese audiences. He recommended that Vietnam and Venezuela co-operate in making films in the future.

Uzcategui said he hoped the two countries’ film industries would work together to make a film on Nguyen Van Troi, a young Vietnamese hero during the war against the US, who is well-known amongst the Venezuelan people.

According to Mexican Ambassador, Gilberto Limón Enríquez, the event is part of a series of activities to promote Latin American culture in Vietnam. He also said he hopes that the films would be screened on television so that Vietnamese audiences from across the country could access the art of making films from Latin America.

Meanwhile, Jean Lesly Benoit, Haitian Ambassador, said the Latin American Film Week is among activities aiming to boost cultural exchange between Vietnam and Latin America in general, and between Vietnam and Haiti in particular. More events will be held, including a Haitian Cultural Week slated for January 2015.

The second Latin American Film Week will take place at Hanoi Cinematheque, 22A Hai Ba Trung street in Hanoi. It will open with ‘To fool a thief’ by young Argentinean director Ariel Winograd.

‘Bolívar, Man of difficulties’ from Venezuela and ‘Toussaint Louverture’, which tells the story of the leader of the Haitian slaves during the war against the French, will also be screened.