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VietNamNet Bridge – YxineFF this year has kicked off with Tran Dung Thanh Huy’s controversial 16:30. The movie shorts festival has also selected 66 movies to be available to global audiences until December 15.
What is remarkable this year is that there are many films which focus on children, teenagers and school life. With questions of identity, the struggle for love, protection and school violence are posed with multifaceted, diverse insights and vibrancy.
In the international category, 15 films from 11 countries include Tomaki Teng’s Tiny Pupil, Uncle and Son by Nguyen Dinh Quy Anh, Two Girls against the Rain by Sao Sopheak, and Erin Good’s Abbie.
Individual stories with great diversity and layers are told with much creativeness, the colorful painting of Saigon in 16:30, racial discrimination and psychological struggle in Dawn by Leon Le, a violent thriller in Breath by Tan Hyon-Le, memory and catastrophe in The Room by Nguyen Hong Quan, two paths of human life in Les deux vies de Nate Hill by Jeane Joseph, loss in Oasis by Carlo Francisco Manatad, the sorrow of war in Photo Booth by Michael Noonan, mutual love between children and animals in Iva by Polen Ly, or a young teacher in a remote village in Aua-Jao by Pun Kamjudpai.
The local category for Vietnamese directors, consists of ten films in which five come from Hanoi, four from HCMC and one from Singapore.
The category of Panorama presents an overview of Vietnam’s short films in the last three years with 18 films from around the country from comedy to horror, to animation and documentary.
YxineFF 2012’s In Focus consists of seven programs divided on themes.
Films are shown in original languages with English subtitles with premiere screening (one film per day) as followed: September 15 to 29 for International Competition (15 films), October 1 to 10 for Local Competition (10 films), October 22 to November 8 for Panorama (18 films), November 16 to December 7 for In Focus (22 films) and the closing film on December 15.
YxineFF (Yxine Film Fest) is an annual online international short film festival at www.yxineff.com with the slogan ‘Sharing. Love. Cinema’. YxineFF is a voluntary, non-profit and independent project.
The project receives support from many organizations, companies and individuals, including the Danish Cultural Development & Exchange Fund, Goethe Institute Vietnam, British Council Vietnam and the U.S. Consulate General in HCMC.
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