A documentary film on Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago which tells the story of local fishermen’s lives made by a Vietnamese French director will be screened in Ho Chi Minh City next week.
The 59-minute documentary, “Hoang Sa – Painful Loss,” will be shown for free on Tuesday at 6:00 pm at IDECAF, 31 Thai Van Lung Street, District 1.
Apart from featuring the lives of Vietnamese fishermen who spend days and nights fishing in the East Vietnam Sea for their livelihoods as well as helping protect the country’s sea and island sovereignty, it draws a beautiful picture of those women who have sacrificed everything for their husbands and sons, who have gone fishing in the deep sea and might never come back.
It also explores the concept of “mo gio” (wind tomb), local residents’ spiritual belief according to which people make the tombs without corpses inside to dedicate to those soldiers who died at sea while protecting the country’s maritime sovereignty.
The documentary was made by French filmmaker Andre Menras, who also holds Vietnamese citizenship under the name Ho Cuong Quyet.
Menras played the role of both the playwright and director of the film, in an effort to show his empathy for the Vietnamese fishermen and women’s hard lives.
Đăng ký: VietNam News