Music Night with Toby Tobias
Fri 06 Jun 2014, 9 pm
The Observatory
Corner of Le Lai and Ton That Tung, Dist.1, HCMC
Come to enjoy a music night with UK DJ and producer Toby Tobias.
TOBY TOBIAS [UK/ DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR / BUREK] is a veteran DJ producer whose vast repertoire of eclectic, jazzy electronic productions has allowed him to claim a sound he can call his own.
A known figure on the global underground music circuit, his ability to spin dance floors into frenzied pits of sound-induced abandon has been well recognized from Latin America to Europe, while his deep musical knowledge has been honed by many a producer looking for his touch on countless remixes.
Tickets: 100,000 VND.
“Chiếu bóng” – 4 Outstanding Documentary Films from TPD
Fri 06 Jun 2014, 7.30 pm
Manzi Art Space
14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi
This coming Friday manzi is delighted to continue our new series of experimental movie and video art screenings entitled CHIẾU BÓNG (Vietnamese for cinema), in collaboration with Hanoi DocLab, TPD YxineFF.
This time, a special selection of 4 short documentary films by young Vietnamese filmmakers of TPD (The Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents) will be on screen at manzi. Each film is a different slide of life in Vietnam today.
The films include:
1. We’ve Got Married (2013), documentary, 21’, directed by Nguyễn Hà Phương Mai Thị Búp
2. Who are you (2012), documentary, 18’54’’, directed by Hoang Thi Huyen My
3. The Debt (2012), documentary, 16’ 30’’, directed by Bui Thi Ha
4. My Son goes to School, documentary, 28’ 30’’, directed by Hà Lệ Diễm
Language: All films are in Vietnamese with English subtitle.
Ticket at door: 70,000VND | 50,000VND (for student) including 01 free drink
French Film at the European Documentary Film Festival 2014
Hanoi: Thu 05 Jun 2014, 7 pm
National Studio for Documentary and Scientific Film
465 Hoang Hoa Tham, Hanoi
HCMC: Mon 23 Jun 2014, 6.30 pm
Hoa Sen University
93 Cao Thang Str, Ward 3, Dist 3, HCMC
You are invited to the screening of French Film “La Maison de la Radio” at European Documentary Film Festival 2014.
La Maison de la Radio (103′)
Radio France is the national radio broadcaster in France, created in 1975.
Today, the Radio France group includes 7 national channels, plus a multitude of local stations. Millions of listeners tune in everyday and many public stations are leading the market. Radio France also has a renowned Philharmonic Orchestra and a highly visited website. Podcasts of Radio France are commonly n°1 downloads on Itunes in France.
The staff of Radio France works in a very famous building: La maison de la radio, also known as The round house, because the building is shaped like a circle.
Director Nicolas Philibert helps us discover all the little secrets of this strange world that wakes up before dawn but actually never sleeps. He is the famous documentary filmmaker that previously directed Être et Avoir, a documentary that won the César for the Best Documentary film and has been seen by more than 2 million spectators in France and over 1 million worldwide.
Free entrance.
Language: French with Vietnamese subtitles.
Exhibition of Wearable Art Pieces at Lucy’s Dream
Exhibition: 31 May – 15 Jun 2014
Lucy’s Dream
31 Hang Giay, Hanoi
Lucy’s Dream is a Mini Concept Store, showcasing the works of Young Vietnamese Artists under the form of Wearable Art Pieces.
This ongoing exhibition includes Wearable Art Pieces depicting the Dong-Ho (Đông Hồ) Painting culture of Vietnam, World Fairy Tales, and Surreal Photographic Sceneries.
This is the story of how Lucy’s Dream came to life.
I was just another girl working full-time for a corporation when suddenly it dawned on me that my purpose in life was to create truly original made-in-Vietnam East-meets-West style wearable art.
By Mid-2012, I had gathered a great team, composed of young Vietnamese artists who wanted to make a difference in the fashion lifestyle scene of Vietnam. Lucy’s Dream was born in December 2012.
We hand-paint, digitally trace and print our own designs on fabrics, and manufacture unique and whimsical lifestyle products out of these self-designed fabrics.
For 2 years of constant effort, we have grown Lucy’s Dream from an online platform at www.lucysdream.net to two (02) brick-and-mortar stores in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Program of FVH in June
Please find attached the FVH program of events for the month of June. You’ll see it’s a quiet month – but interesting nonetheless – with City Walks around Hoan Kiem Lake (Saturday 14th) and Lan Ong Street (Tuesday 24th).
This will be the last month of FVH activities before a break in July and August.
Enjoy the walks in June and we look forward to bringing you more FVH activities in September.
For details please download this file: FVH Jun Program
UK Film at the European Documentary Film Festival 2014
Hanoi: Sun 08 Jun 2014, 7 pm
National Studio for Documentary and Scientific Film
465 Hoang Hoa Tham, Hanoi
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Hoa Sen University
93 Cao Thang Str, Ward 3, Dist 3, HCMC
You are invited to the screening of UK Film “Dreams of a life” at European Documentary Film Festival 2014.
Director: Carol Morley
Year of production: 2011
Duration: 95’
Would anyone miss you? Nobody noticed when Joyce Vincent died in her bedsit above a shopping mall in North London in 2003. Her body wasn’t discovered for three years, surrounded by Christmas presents she had been wrapping, and with the TV still on. Newspaper reports offered few details of her life– not even a photograph. Interweaving interviews with imagined scenes from Joyce’s life, Dreams of a Life is an imaginative, powerful, multilayered quest, and is not only a portrait of Joyce but a portrait of London in the eighties—the City, music, and race. It is a film about urban lives, contemporary life, and how, like Joyce, we are all different things to different people. It is about how little we may ever know each other, but nevertheless, how much we can love.
Free entrance.
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitles.
Future Now Music Festival
Sat 07 Jun 2014, 4 – 11.45 pm
Saigon Exhibition Convention Center (SECC)
799 Nguyen Van Linh, Dist 7, HCMC
Future Now Music Festival (FNMF) – first time being organized in Vietnam, is expected to be the most anticipated EDM music festival with an international standard in this summer. Future Now with the headliner DJ Afrojack – ranking 9th in Top DJ of the world and the comeback of the American hip hop band – Far East Movement, is promised to bring a wild and impressive music night to EDM lovers.
And Future Now Music Festival 2014 also brings to you the stage of many famous EDM DJs in Vietnam such as the duo Slim V Nimbia, Mike Hao, DuyDuy, Looze Khuong, and Brian Vo. In addition, the Vietnamese diva and dance-pop queen Thu Minh will also have a spectacular performance that she has been specially prepared for this festival to surprise all EDM lovers.
Ticket prices: from 500,000 to 1,500,000 VND.
Buy tickets online via Ticketbox.
Exhibition “Le Petit Prince”
Opening: Sun 01 Jun 2014, 5 pm
Exhibition: 01 – 30 Jun 2014
Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi
15 Ngo Quyen Str, Hanoi
Le Petit Prince, one of the most beloved children’s stories of all time, is coming to the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi next month.
Starting June 1, Hanoi’s storied old hotel is mounting a month-long exhibition, called le Petit Prince’s Journey, of the storied old children’s tale about a little boy fallen to Earth who encounters the strangeness of the adult world for the first time.
The exhibit includes scans of original manuscript pages produced by the book’s, author, Antoine de Saint-Exupery; selections of artistic photograhy by Vincent Nguyen of locations around the world traveled by Saint-Exupéry; and a rare color film of Saint-Exupéry in Canada in 1942, at work on Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince.)
As one stop in a larger tour of Sofitel hotels worldwide, the Metropole will open its exhibit with a ceremony on June 1, International Children’s Day, in Le Club Bar at 5p.m. All of the imagery associated with the exhibit will be displayed in Le Club Bar and L’Orangerie.
Sofitel organized the traveling exhibit as an opportunity to expose its work with the Saint-Exupéry Foundation, a group that promotes initiatives to support children in difficult environments.
For every family that books a stay at the hotel on the Magnifique Family package, the hotel is donating €2 per night to the Saint-Exupéry Foundation. The package includes 50% off a second room for children, complimentary breakfast for children, and late check-out (4 p.m.) for families.
The amenities associated with Le Petit Prince include a travel diary with a picture of the child on the first page and table mats at breakfast.
Screening of “Mobile Home”
Fri 06 Jun 2014, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the comedy screening titled “Mobile Home” (Belgium-France-Luxembourg) directed by Francois Pirot. The film won Second Young Jury Prize in Locarno International Film Festival 2012.
“An interesting caravan road trip!”
For more information about synopsis, please see L’Espace website (in French) or refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.
Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.
Tickets:
Ticket price: 40 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 20 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Performance of Opera “Carmen”
02 and 03 Jun 2014, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to performance of opera “Carmen”. The opera will be performed by more than 150 artists, musicians and Singers of the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet and:
Director: Helena Rohr (Sweden)
Conductor: Quang Vinh
Opera “Carmen”
Originated from the novel by Prosper Mérimée, the opera Carmen was completed in the autumn of 1874. It was the last work of Georges Bizet, and also is the most popular opera on the stage in the world until now. Bizet, through his music, told us a tragic story behind brightness, and depicted the optimistic, straightforward but wild personality of a Gipsy girl, Carmen. The opera discloses the bald-faced passions, describes the eternal confrontation between men and women, shows the ruthless but beautiful life, and proves the perpetual co-existence between love and death.
Performers:
Carmen : Vanh Khuyen
Don José: Thanh Binh, Anh Vu
Escamillo: Phan Duc, Manh Dung
Micaela: Thang Long
Zuniga: Huy Duc
Morales: Kieu Tham
Fraquita: Thu Huong
Mercedes: Phuong Dung
Lillas Pastia: Hoang Hoa
Dancaido: Khanh Cuong
Remendado: Phi Hung
and the Hanoi International Choir, the Orchestra of Vietnam National Opera and Ballet.
Tickets
Ticket prices: 250000, 350000, 500000, 700000 VND. All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over ticketvn@gmail.com
For delivery call: 0913489858, 0983067996.
Theatre Performance “Mademoiselle Bonjour”
Mademoiselle Bonjour
Thu 05 Jun 2014, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
After producing Feydeau’s work titled “An Absolute Turkey”, the amateur theater company Phapbulateurs will perform a work by Boris Vian this time. Combining ballet, chorus, choreography with an incredible story ending, Mademoiselle Bonsoir is a tender but volatile musical play.
Tired of replying open letters in a magazine office, the columnist and his secretary grab the need of a shy guy who wants to find a soul mate, and decide to establish an unusual business: offering the service of a girl who visits households at night to sing a lullaby. The team was charmed by graceful Clémentine and so do people who approach her, including an insomniac serial killer….
Tickets:
Reserved seating tickets: 150.000/80.000 VND, pre-order here
At door: 200.000/100.000 VND
Classical Concert with Quartet Parisii
Sat 07 Jun 2014, 8 pm
L’Espace24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the classical concert with the performance of Quartet Parisii.
Celebrating their 30th anniversary in 2013, the Quartet possesses excellence and maturity in their music performing skills which have created their reputation in theaters in Paris as well as across the country.
The concert will include works of composers Boccherini, Haydn, Webern, Debussy, Campo, Glass, and Schubert’s “Girl and Death”.
Tickets:
Ticket price: 120000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 60000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
6th European-Vietnamese Documentary Film Festival in Hanoi and HCMC
Hanoi: 04 – 12 Jun 2014
National Studio for Documentary and Scientific Film
465 Hoang Hoa Tham, Hanoi
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HCMC: 21 – 29 Jun 2014
Hoa Sen University
93 Cao Thang Str, Ward 3, Dist 3, HCMC
For the sixth time, EUNIC, the network of the European cultural institutes and embassies, and the National Film Studio for Documentary and Science Film Vietnam, will present European and South East Asian films. After each film from Vietnam there will follow a film from Denmark, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Austria, Poland, Sweden or Spain. Standing in dialogue, the differences in both the cinematic language and the topics become clear, but foremost the common ground: The love of understanding the world through images. The festival takes place in Hanoi from 4 to 12 June and in Ho Chi Minh City from 21 to 29 June.
In the much acclaimed German contribution “Forget me Not” by David Sieveking a widespread disease sets the framework: Alzheimer’s. As the filmmaker’s mother suffers from it, the whole family is challenged. Although the story seems hard, Sieveking portrays the domestic care of his mother with humour and astonishing candor. During the screening in Hanoi on 4 June, the German cutter Catrin Vogt will be present and talk about the film.
In the context of the documentary film festival the Goethe-Institute furthermore invites to two workshops: One workshop will gather filmmakers from several South East Asian countries with the Finnish director Iikka Vehkalahti. Some of those filmmakers will also present their films during the film festival. The second workshop for young Vietnamese filmmakers from Hanoi takes place at the Hanoi DOCLAB under the direction of Catrin Vogt. The DOCLAB is a documentary film center at the Goethe-Institut. By providing professional equipment and workshops, it aims to promote and support the still young documentary film scene in Hanoi. On 6 June Catrin Vogt will give a talk on ‘Dramaturgical Editing of Documentary Films’ which will be open for all interested professionals.
Free entrance to all screenings.
Screening of “For June” (Dành cho tháng sáu) and Live Set “Ngọt”
Mon 02 Jun 2014, 7.30 pm
Hầm Hành
170 Doi Can Str, Hanoi
THE ONION CELLAR can’t wait to help you exorcise the ghosts of student days (or if you’re still a student this is gonna be a necessary reminder (enjoy it)).
A perfect Onion Cellar-ish combination of cinema and music: a rare screening of Vietnamese independent film DÀNH CHO THÁNG SÁU (FOR JUNE) – featuring a QA session with director Nguyễn Hữu Tuấn.
Plus a pre-film live set from NGỌT – one of the most exciting (young) Vietnamese groups these days.
DÀNH CHO THÁNG SÁU (FOR JUNE) (2012)
Director: Nguyễn Hữu Tuấn
81 mins
Languages: Vietnamese, with English subtitles
The first love and the last match.
Close friends Kien, Hoang and Minh’s perfect summer break is threatened when Kien suddenly leaves for his home village, abandoning his high school basketball team days before they face their most challenging game in an important competition. Realising that Kien’s unrequited love for Minh drove him away, Hoang and Minh go search for Kien in an attempt to save their friendship and the game.
NGỌT
Little streams do make big rivers.
NGỌT is an exciting trio of university students who write and perform breezy intimate songs that can sometimes pass for lullabies. Sounding little (if any) similar to their peers in the local rock/folk scene, the band exists in a bedroom of their own – though quite possibly one would find in this room: a copy of Pink Floyd’s Animals, the full Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs box-set, The Microphones’ The Glow Pt. 2, and perhaps a portrait of Lou Reed hanging somewhere on the wall. Or, you know, like that scene in Tran Anh Hung’s At the Height of Summer
Fronted by singer/guitarist Vu Dinh Trong Thang who croons surprisingly charming wisdoms (with just a tiny hint of bittersweet existentialism) over quirky instrumentation partly courtesy of guitarist Tuan Tran and drummer Nam Anh, NGỌT is truly a band you do not come across everyday. It all seems so effortless it feels like the music waltzs itself into existence, and one can hardly wait to see what the immediate future holds for this young promising group. The Onion Cellar is super chuffed to have them perform at Hầm Hành.
Tickets: VND 20,000 at doors.
Hanoi Slam Presents “Courage”
Wed 04 Jun 2014, 7.30 pm
PUKU
16-18 Tong Duy Tan (‘Food Street’), Hanoi
Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Ever had to get going even while your teeth rattled and your stomach danced? Ever made a decision that left you with breathless and shaking? Ever reached inside of yourself to fetch something you didn’t know you had?
Hanoi Slam is celebrating the end of its current season by challenging speakers to share their moment of courage. They may be awesomely gigantic, or fleetingly small but all of these moments are diamonds and we can’t wait to hear about them!
Join us on June 4th from 7:30 p.m. as ten speakers dual for our fantastic prizes.
Entry is 100,000 VND on the door and all proceeds will benefit Humanitarian Services for the Children of Vietnam.
Want to be a speaker? Found the courage to front the mic? We want YOU! Sign up NOW by emailing Hanoistoryslam@gmail.com. Compete for fantastic prizes and mic glory while throwing it down for a great cause.
Theater Performance of “Impermanence”
06 and 07 Jun 2014, 7 pm
Barbecue garden Westlake
No 66, lane 12, Dang Thai Mai Str, Hanoi
“Impermanence” is a performing arts play which explores themes of death, memory and perception with one man’s disjointed awareness of reality.
A harmony of acting, dancing and beautiful visuals put together in one special performance. This is a play that questions perception, examines life, loss and the bountiful journey of creativity!
Doors open 7 pm, showing at 7.30 pm.
Entry fee: 100,000 VND.
German Film “Forget me not” at the Opening of European Documentary Film Festival 2014 in Hanoi and HCMC
Hanoi: Wed 04 Jun 2014, 7 pm
National Studio for Documentary and Scientific Film
465 Hoang Hoa Tham, Hanoi
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HCMC: Sat 21 Jun 2014, 6.30 pm
Hoa Sen University
93 Cao Thang Str, Ward 3, Dist 3, HCMC
You are invited to the screening of German Film “Forget me not” at the Opening of European Documentary Film Festival 2014.
For the screening on the opening night of the European-Vietnamese Documentary Film Festival in Hanoi, the editor Catrin Vogt will be present and talk about “Vergiss mein nicht”.
In Forget me not, David Sieveking portrays the domestic care of his mother, who, like millions of others, is suffering from Alzheimer’s. David’s parents were active in the student movement of the 1960s and led an “open relationship”, which is now being tested in a dramatic way through his mother’s illness. The changes taking place within her forces the family to face its own conflicts and even teaches them how to deal with these conflicts more tenderly, bringing them all closer together. With humor and astonishing candor, David Sieveking’s family chronicle is characterized by unaffected participation and loving affection, where it is the human at the centre of the story, not the illness.
Awards:
SR G SSR Critics’ Week Award Locarno 2012
Special Jury Prize Documenta Madrid 2013
Millenium Award Planete Doc Warsaw 2013
Free entrance.
Language: German with English and Vietnamese subtitles.
Screening of Documentary “Born into Brothels”
Sun 01 Jun 2014, 6 pm
DOCLAB
Goethe-Institut Hanoi
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học
Ba Đình, Hà Nội
Hanoi DOCLAB cordially invites you to the screening of the “Born into Brothels” (2004) by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman. This film won Oscar 2004 for Best Documentary Feature and Audien Award in Sundance Film Festival.
“Born Into Brothels” is a documentary about the inspiring non-profit foundation Kids With Cameras, which teaches photography skills to children in marginalized communities. In 1998, New York-based photographer Zana Briski started photographing prostitutes in the red-light district of Calcutta. She eventually developed a relationship with their children, who were fascinated by her equipment.
After several years of learning in workshops with Briski, the kids created their own photographs with point-and-shoot 35 mm cameras. Their images capture the intimacy and color of everyday life in the overpopulated sections of Calcu . Proceeds from the sale of the children’s photographs go to fund their future education.
The photography is splendid, rich in color and subject matter, and the video camera following Briski through the squalid red light district, pausing to hear abusive mothers and drugged fathers deny their children passage into a better life, hearing the wisdom of the elders who desire something more for these children, captures a world few know. This is a touching film without being maudlin, beautiful without ignoring reality. Highly Recommended.”
Duration: 85 minutes
Language: The film is in English with Vietnamese subtitle
Free Entrance.