Japan Cherry Blossom Festival among events to live up Hanoi weekend
There will be plenty on this weekend to keep you entertained. Here’s everything you’ll need to make the most of it.
Japan Cherry Blossom Festival 2019
The 2019 Japan Cherry Blossom Festival – Hanoi will take place at the Ly Thai To Park in the heart of Hanoi, with a display of Japanese cherry blossoms and some special Vietnamese and Hanoi flowers.
Visitors to the festival will have a chance to experience Japanese culture, Yosakoi – Japanese traditional flashmob dance, along with Vietnamese arts like ca tru and hat xam, will also be introduced during the festival. There will also be investment and tourism promotion conferences, and exchange programs on education and health care.
In addition, a goodwill ambassador will be selected for the first time during the Festival. Accordingly, the chosen one must have a passion for enhancing the Vietnam – Japan friendship as well as knowledge of and interest in Japan and have N4-level Japanese speaking ability.
Unmarried Vietnamese women who are above 18 years old and live in Hanoi are eligible to apply for the selection, which will last from January till March 2019. The winner will be introduced to the public at the opening ceremony of the 2019 Japan Cherry Blossom Festival – Hanoi, which takes place on March 29 evening.
Time: Friday, Saturday and Sunday from March 29 to 31
Venue: Ly Thai To Park
Cinema at L’Espace
“Comme un avion” (Memories) (France, 2015, 104’)
Director: Bruno Podalydès
Casts: Bruno Podalydès, Sandrine Kiberlain, Agnès Jaoui, Vimala Pons
A fifty-something graphics artist has always dreamed of flying an airmail plane. One day he assembles a kayak which he thinks looks like fuselage, and set off on a trip to unexpected encounters.
“Belle et Sébastien” (France, 2013, 104’)
Director: Nicolas Vanier
Casts: Félix Bossuet, Tchéky Karyo, Margaux Châtelier
“Belle and Sebastian” is directly adapted from the television series “Belle et Sébastien” 1965. “Belle and Sebastian” film is not the first adaptation of the story told by the creator of the television series, Cécile Aubry. Indeed, in parallel with the series, Aubry wrote a series of novels about its own universe in six volumes and a few years later, in 1981, the Japanese NHK has recovered the account in order to make an animated series 52 episodes: “Belle and Sebastian”. Set in France in 1943, the plot tells about a six-year-old boy and his dog looking to foil a Nazi effort to capture French Resistance fighters. The movie is directed by Nicolas Vanier – who is obsessed with the theme of snow and canine dogs. In this movie, the romance and poetic shots are meticulously made by the director fascinate audience, besides a moving friendship story.
Time: Sunday March 31 from 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Venue: L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien street, Hanoi
An Anonymous Exhibition Tour
Heritage Space is hosting the Anonymous Tour, the special art tour giving a walk-through to the “Is it necessary to have a name?..‘ – an unnamed exhibition. The Tour, led by organiser and artists, will be an opportunity for viewers to understand the works more clearly through verbal introduction, stories behind them as well the original creative ideas as the works are analysed layer by layer underneath their façade.
Time: Sunday March 31 from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Venue: Heritage Space, 1st Floor, Dolphin Plaza, 6 Nguyen Hoang / 28 Tran Binh, My Dinh 2, Hanoi
FILMstoryteller: “Like someone in Love” #2
Due to having received feedback from the audiences with the desire to watch “Like someone in love”, we opened another screening for those who missed this movie screening.
The follow-up discussion will have the contribution of Ngo Thanh – an Abbas Kiarostami’s film lover and an independent researcher.
Synopsis:
An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty four hours bears no relation to the circumstances of their encounter.
Time: Sunday March 31 at 7:00 pm
Venue: Heritage Space, 1st Floor, Dolphin Plaza, 6 Nguyen Hoang / 28 Tran Binh, My Dinh 2, Hanoi
Japan Cherry Blossom Festival 2019.
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Visitors to the festival will have a chance to experience Japanese culture, Yosakoi – Japanese traditional flashmob dance, along with Vietnamese arts like ca tru and hat xam, will also be introduced during the festival. There will also be investment and tourism promotion conferences, and exchange programs on education and health care.
In addition, a goodwill ambassador will be selected for the first time during the Festival. Accordingly, the chosen one must have a passion for enhancing the Vietnam – Japan friendship as well as knowledge of and interest in Japan and have N4-level Japanese speaking ability.
Unmarried Vietnamese women who are above 18 years old and live in Hanoi are eligible to apply for the selection, which will last from January till March 2019. The winner will be introduced to the public at the opening ceremony of the 2019 Japan Cherry Blossom Festival – Hanoi, which takes place on March 29 evening.
Time: Friday, Saturday and Sunday from March 29 to 31
Venue: Ly Thai To Park
Cinema at L’Espace
Cinema at L’Espace.
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Director: Bruno Podalydès
Casts: Bruno Podalydès, Sandrine Kiberlain, Agnès Jaoui, Vimala Pons
A fifty-something graphics artist has always dreamed of flying an airmail plane. One day he assembles a kayak which he thinks looks like fuselage, and set off on a trip to unexpected encounters.
“Belle et Sébastien” (France, 2013, 104’)
Director: Nicolas Vanier
Casts: Félix Bossuet, Tchéky Karyo, Margaux Châtelier
“Belle and Sebastian” is directly adapted from the television series “Belle et Sébastien” 1965. “Belle and Sebastian” film is not the first adaptation of the story told by the creator of the television series, Cécile Aubry. Indeed, in parallel with the series, Aubry wrote a series of novels about its own universe in six volumes and a few years later, in 1981, the Japanese NHK has recovered the account in order to make an animated series 52 episodes: “Belle and Sebastian”. Set in France in 1943, the plot tells about a six-year-old boy and his dog looking to foil a Nazi effort to capture French Resistance fighters. The movie is directed by Nicolas Vanier – who is obsessed with the theme of snow and canine dogs. In this movie, the romance and poetic shots are meticulously made by the director fascinate audience, besides a moving friendship story.
Time: Sunday March 31 from 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Venue: L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien street, Hanoi
An Anonymous Exhibition Tour
An Anonymous Exhibition Tour
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Time: Sunday March 31 from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Venue: Heritage Space, 1st Floor, Dolphin Plaza, 6 Nguyen Hoang / 28 Tran Binh, My Dinh 2, Hanoi
FILMstoryteller: “Like someone in Love” #2
FILMstoryteller: “Like someone in Love” #2
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The follow-up discussion will have the contribution of Ngo Thanh – an Abbas Kiarostami’s film lover and an independent researcher.
Synopsis:
An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty four hours bears no relation to the circumstances of their encounter.
Time: Sunday March 31 at 7:00 pm
Venue: Heritage Space, 1st Floor, Dolphin Plaza, 6 Nguyen Hoang / 28 Tran Binh, My Dinh 2, Hanoi
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