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The organizers have also announced the theme of this year’s festival ‘Choice’. In the International Competition, YxineFF 2013 features 12 films (10 fiction, one documentary and one animation) from 10 countries: Cambodia, France, Germany, India, Italy, South Korea, the Philippines, Romania, the U.S. and Vietnam. In the Local Competition of YxineFF 2013 there are ten young directors mostly from Hanoi and HCMC covering five fiction, four documentaries and an animation movie. This category expresses the diversity in genres of Vietnamese filmmakers and the strength of documentary film at YxineFF.
The Panorama Competition contains 13 films which are mostly drama expressing popular sides of the theme Choice. The In Focus of YxineFF also has nine films.
The festival brings to audiences five films made by students from the National University of Arts in Seoul, South Korea in a separate program. The special highlight of YxineFF 2013 is Before The Long Feature which includes six shorts made by famous Vietnamese directors before they made the big time, including Siu Pham, Bui Thac Chuyen, Phan Dang Di, Nguyen Quang Dung, Vu Ngoc Dang and Ham Tran.
The festival will close with Black Sun directed by Truong Que Chi in Paris on December 13.
Đăng ký: VietNam News
