Film Week features best of Denmark

HCM CITY – Danish Film Week 2011 opened yesterday in HCM City as part of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Denmark and Viet Nam.

The week will screen award-winning productions, among others, in HCM City and Ha Noi until next Wednesday, including What No One Knows by Soren Kragh-Jacobsen (2008) and The Five Obstructions (2003), directed by Lars von Trier and Jorgen Leth.

"Denmark has a remarkable history of film production and holds a key place in the world scene of cinema," said John Nielsen, Danish Ambassador to Viet Nam.

When the film In a Better World by director Susanne Bier this year won the Oscar for the best foreign-language film, it was not the first time that a Danish director and a Danish movie had received international recognition, Nielsen said.

The week will also screen the modern thriller The Candidate by Kasper Barfoed (2008) and the film animation The Apple and the Worm by Anders Morgenthaler (2009).

Vietnamese audiences had a chance to see and talk with Danish director Jorgen Leth, who attended the opening of the film week when The Five Obstructions was screened.

Jorgen Leth is a filmmaker, producer, writer and poet who has achieved worldwide recognition for his work as a filmmaker.

Free tickets for the films, which will be shown with subtitles in Vietnamese and English, are available at IDECAF in HCM City at 31 Thai Van Lung Street. District 1, and at Ha Noi Cinematheque in Ha Noi at 22A Hai Ba Trung Street, Hoan Kiem District. — VNS